James Banich, MD
Plastic Surgery · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1801087044
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $2,700 of the $3,212 with a category attached, or 84.0%. AbbVie accounts for 85.1% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,904 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $165 in 2023.
Across 11 payments — averaging $292.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$307
- Merz North America, Inc.$150
- Organogenesis Inc.$21
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$51216%
- Gifts$2,70084%
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) | 4 | $2,734 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 4 | $307 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $21 |
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
$3,212 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 70 plastic surgery providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 263 | $1,396 |
| Cephalexin | 240 | $1,192 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 121 | $822 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $152 |
| Levofloxacin | 20 | $108 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 17 | $102 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 13 | $78 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 18 | $50 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $41 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Colorado Springs
- Nancy WongColorado Springs$12K
- Rupesh JainColorado Springs$2K
- Krishna DashColorado Springs$2K
- Gregory BlandColorado Springs$1K
- Paul PierceColorado Springs$763
- Ian WalkerColorado Springs$135
- Andrew WolfeGolden$66K
- Lisa HunsickerLittleton$59K
- Damien BatesDenver$57K
- Philippe CapraroDenver$43K
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.