Erik Marques
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1689603862
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 89 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 48.9% of the total.
Across 89 payments — averaging $94.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Axogen$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$628
- Davol Inc.$372
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$345
- Checkpoint Surgical, Inc$197
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$290%
- Food & beverage$8,371100%
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) | 36 | $4,108 |
| Axogen | 15 | $1,256 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 6 | $628 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $372 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $345 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 4 | $197 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $156 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $128 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $120 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $112 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $101 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $99 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $87 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $67 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Stryker | 2 | $57 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $12 |
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$2,051
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$635
- NATRELLE$486
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$401
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$383
- INTEGRA$360
- ALLODERM$296
- Phasix Mesh$270
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$233
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$233
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$206
- V-LOC 180$156
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$144
- Restrata Wound Matrix$142
- STRATTICE$132
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$128
- MATRIXCOMBO$128
- RENASYS TOUCH$120
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$120
- PRIMATRIX$120
How this compares
$8,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 378 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Texas.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.