Elliott Chen, MD
Plastic Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1073667085
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 30 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 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for plastic surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,542.
Across 30 payments — averaging $86.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$613
- TELA Bio, Inc.$460
- AbbVie$274
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$226
- Kls-martin L.p.$214
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$209
- plus $608 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,604100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $613 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $460 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $274 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $226 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $214 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $209 |
| Stryker | 1 | $168 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $150 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $148 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $55 |
| Axogen | 1 | $36 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$495
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$450
- INTEGRA$340
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$293
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$258
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$168
- OviTex 2S$167
- Restrata Wound Matrix$154
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$150
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$150
- Nerve Tape$148
- ALLODERM$125
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$113
- PRIMATRIX$113
How this compares
$2,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 65 plastic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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.
Other plastic surgery in Columbia
- Richard WassermannColumbia$77K
- Kayla HumenanskyColumbia$26K
- Gregory SextonColumbia$21K
- Tarik MujadzicColumbia$4K
- Nicole JonesColumbia$4K
- Steven HermizColumbia$3K
- Harold FriedmanColumbia$2K
- Jack McCarthyColumbia$1K
- Peter HainesColumbia$1K
- Donen DavisColumbia$701
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.