Frank Albino, MD
Plastic Surgery · Chevy Chase, MDNPI 1801110390
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. at 29.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $14,850 and has fallen 94.9% since, to $752 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 218 payments — averaging $114.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$7K
- AbbVie$6K
- Sientra, Inc.$6K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$2K
- Stryker$942
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$488
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,66231%
- Travel & lodging$3,95916%
- Food & beverage$13,30053%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $7,253 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 138 | $6,190 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 16 | $5,568 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $1,500 |
| Stryker | 5 | $942 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 9 | $488 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $454 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 5 | $433 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $406 |
| Axogen | 6 | $363 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $267 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 7 | $212 |
| Tepha Inc | 3 | $174 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $172 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $135 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $88 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Sonavex, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $42 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $19 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$7,662
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$5,347
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,735
- NATRELLE$1,314
- ALLOGRAFT$1,092
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$557
- ALLODERM$398
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$322
- Motiva Implant Matrix$320
- Stravix$270
- GRAFIX PL$270
- TENOGLIDE$181
- BOTOX COSMETIC$175
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$141
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$141
- BOTOX$136
- Grafix$136
- Midface Titanium System$135
- Hospital Instrumentation$134
- DERMACELL$134
How this compares
$24,921 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 105 plastic surgery providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cefadroxil | 34 | $298 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 27 | $179 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 24 | $128 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Chevy Chase
- Samir RaoChevy Chase$26K
- Navin SinghChevy Chase$16K
- Ornela KutzkeChevy Chase$5K
- James BrunoChevy Chase$5K
- Christopher BrownChevy Chase$4K
- Sheilah LynchChevy Chase$2K
- Wendell MilesChevy Chase$2K
- Chad GordonBaltimore$2.9M
- Larry LicksteinTowson$271K
- Sarah MessColumbia$178K
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.