Hisham Seify
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Newport Beach, CANPI 1629163365
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $55,450 of the $84,560 with a category attached, or 65.6%. Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 83.6% of it on its own, with 22 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $43,150 and has fallen 93.5% since, to $2,798 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 189 payments — averaging $447.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$71K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$7K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$771
- AbbVie$614
- plus $2K from 17 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $21,744 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$94K
- Davol Inc.$36K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,01320%
- Speaking & faculty fees$55,45066%
- Travel & lodging$4,3165%
- Food & beverage$6,0187%
- Other$1,7642%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 75 | $70,657 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 11 | $7,200 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $2,110 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 20 | $1,378 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 25 | $771 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $614 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $453 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $165 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $152 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 8 | $138 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $132 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $110 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 6 | $108 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $104 |
| Tepha Inc | 2 | $93 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $28 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DSUVIA$70,171
- RECELL$7,200
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$1,764
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$643
- DAXXIFY$453
- INTEGRA$343
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$261
- OMNIGRAFT$171
- SURGIMEND$171
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$171
- Novosorb BTM$165
- Restrata Wound Matrix$148
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$148
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$132
- GRAFIX PL$132
- ALLODERM$131
How this compares
$84,560 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 349 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in California.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $93 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Newport Beach
- Christina PrendergastNewport Beach$27K
- Lavinia ChongNewport Beach$12K
- Mark SuskiThousand Oaks$294K
- Corey MaasSan Francisco$286K
- Arian MowlaviLaguna Beach$250K
- Charles LeeSan Francisco$200K
- David SieberSan Francisco$195K
- David KulberLos Angeles$194K
- Matthew NykielUpland$181K
- Subhas GuptaLoma Linda$178K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.