Heather Karu, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1396791232
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 335 payments — averaging $181.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$55K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
- Smith+Nephew$840
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$483
- Organogenesis Inc.$347
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$326
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,10549%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,19820%
- Travel & lodging$7,01912%
- Food & beverage$11,64019%
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) | 105 | $54,877 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 80 | $1,946 |
| Smith+Nephew | 40 | $840 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $483 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 11 | $347 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 12 | $326 |
| Vertex | 10 | $202 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $195 |
| Acell, Inc. | 7 | $160 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 7 | $152 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $138 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $131 |
| Solventum Corporation | 4 | $108 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Stryker | 1 | $88 |
| TEI Medical Inc. | 2 | $85 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $83 |
| Medline Industries LP | 4 | $67 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $56 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 2 | $50 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $47 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $43 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| BD | 1 | $33 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 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.
How this compares
Too few plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in South Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Sioux Falls
- Mark ShashikantSioux Falls$7K
- James BreitSioux Falls$2K
- Bill LiuSioux Falls$1K
- Lee MillerSioux Falls$446
- Mary SnyderRapid City$6K
- Robert SchutzRapid City$875
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.