Dhaval Bhavsar, MD
Plastic Surgery · Kansas City, KSNPI 1184852808
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 28 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for plastic surgery clinicians in KS, where the typical reported total is $2,362.
Across 28 payments — averaging $75.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$302
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$302
- Smith+Nephew$261
- Polynovo North America LLC$246
- RTI Surgical, Inc$220
- Vericel Corporation$220
- plus $573 from 7 others
Across 214 payments — averaging $253.20 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Polynovo North America LLC$28K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,125100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $302 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 3 | $302 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $261 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $246 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $220 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $220 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $109 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 3 | $97 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $29 |
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.
- Phasix Mesh$302
- RECELL$283
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$220
- NexoBrid$177
- Novosorb BTM$160
- Cohealyx$139
- PERMEADERM$139
- Ovitex$122
- No Related Product$109
How this compares
$2,125 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 42 plastic surgery providers in Kansas.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 22 | $788 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Kansas City
- Levi YoungKansas City$8K
- Richard KorentagerKansas City$7K
- James ButterworthKansas City$7K
- Matthew MillerKansas City$5K
- Eric LaiKansas City$5K
- Julia SlaterKansas City$3K
- Eric ForneyKansas City$2K
- Sydney BormannKansas City$2K
- Connor MillerKansas City$1K
- Julian Diaz AbeleKansas City$501
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.