Derek Lou
Plastic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1598964041
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $18,900 of the $22,639 with a category attached, or 83.5%. Mentor Worldwide LLC accounts for 83.5% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $19,422 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $269 in 2025.
Across 68 payments — averaging $332.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$19K
- Merz North America, Inc.$2K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$386
- AbbVie$282
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$277
- Medtronic$96
- plus $363 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,73917%
- Other$18,90083%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $18,900 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 19 | $2,334 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 13 | $386 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $282 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $277 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $96 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $36 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $29 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $17 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- XEOMIN$1,076
How this compares
$22,639 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.
Other plastic surgery in Houston
- Younghoon ChoHouston$1.2M
- David AdelmanHouston$405K
- Warren EllsworthHouston$284K
- Camille CashHouston$212K
- Robert YarishHouston$180K
- Alexander MericliHouston$125K
- Kristy HamiltonHouston$70K
- Jenny NguyenHouston$45K
- Patrick HsuHouston$34K
- Anthony EchoHouston$27K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.