Has Eric Hu, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,053 in general payments to Eric Hu, MD across 59 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Eric Hu, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Eric Hu, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Eric Hu, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Pasadena, CANPI 1386846939

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,053in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $68.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$3K
Smith+Nephew$745
TELA Bio, Inc.$154
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$140
Sientra, Inc.$80
Pfizer$74
plus $211 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,40335%
Other$2,65065%

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
Johnson & Johnson	1	$2,650
Smith+Nephew	40	$745
TELA Bio, Inc.	2	$154
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$140
Sientra, Inc.	3	$80
Pfizer	3	$74
Mentor Worldwide LLC	2	$55
Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$48
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$42
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$36
Vertex	1	$30

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.

INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$125
INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$125
PRIMATRIX$125
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$125
INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$125

How this compares

$4,053 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 349 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,002,651

Medicare patients

Services billed

852

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
Doxycycline Hyclate	22	$275
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	24	$144
Cephalexin	20	$127
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	11	$53

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Pasadena

Shankar LakshmanPasadena$3.5M
Corey MaasSan Francisco$1.5M
Anne WallaceSan Diego$896K
David KulberLos Angeles$340K
Mark SuskiThousand Oaks$294K
Arian MowlaviLaguna Beach$250K
Hisham SeifyNewport Beach$215K
Gregory BunckeSan Francisco$212K
Subhas GuptaLoma Linda$205K
Charles LeeSan Francisco$200K

See the full list for California →

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.

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