Ellis Tavin, MD
Plastic Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1326003179
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,147 of the $4,046 with a category attached, or 77.8%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 36.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,259, 2.2 times the $562 reported in 2019.
Across 154 payments — averaging $26.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$860
- Organogenesis Inc.$309
- Smith+Nephew$190
- Motiva USA, LLC$184
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$180
- plus $849 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$89922%
- Food & beverage$3,14778%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 65 | $1,473 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 8 | $860 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 8 | $309 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $190 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 6 | $184 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 13 | $180 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $141 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 8 | $138 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $101 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $87 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $78 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $73 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Stryker | 2 | $60 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $13 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $10 |
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.
How this compares
$4,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 89 plastic surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 45 | $215 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Memphis
- Moneim ElomeiriMemphis$17K
- Carey CampbellMemphis$15K
- Robin EvansMemphis$9K
- Robert ChandlerMemphis$6K
- Amie MillerMemphis$4K
- Melissa KathMemphis$3K
- Peter AldeaMemphis$2K
- William AdamsMemphis$1K
- Sonia AlvarezMemphis$1K
- George MaxwellNashville$48.3M
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.