Eric Ruff
Plastic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1326536061
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $90.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$962
- Axogen$911
- Motiva USA, LLC$901
- Sientra, Inc.$734
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6637%
- Food & beverage$8,42993%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 16 | $1,604 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 15 | $1,307 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 11 | $962 |
| Axogen | 10 | $911 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 10 | $901 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 5 | $734 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $537 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $325 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $293 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $263 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $251 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $156 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $140 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $130 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $116 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $101 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $44 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $38 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$752
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$734
- Motiva Implant Matrix$657
- Kerecis SurgiClose$624
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$510
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$492
- INTEGRA$322
- Traumaone$263
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$240
- PRIMATRIX$218
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$164
- Kerecis GraftGuide$156
- VersaWrap$155
- PREVENA$155
- VAC VERAFLO$155
- Restrata Wound Matrix$151
- EVO SEEG ELECTRODE$147
- GalaFLEX$140
- OviTex 2S$130
- NATRELLE$122
How this compares
$9,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.
Other plastic surgery in Houston
- Younghoon ChoHouston$1.3M
- David AdelmanHouston$405K
- Warren EllsworthHouston$359K
- Anthony EchoHouston$322K
- Camille CashHouston$227K
- Alexander MericliHouston$188K
- Robert YarishHouston$180K
- Kristy HamiltonHouston$70K
- Mark ClemensHouston$46K
- Jenny NguyenHouston$45K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.