James Wu, MD
Facial Plastic Surgery · Daly City, CANPI 1720070113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $878 of the $1,231 with a category attached, or 71.4%. Aerin Medical Inc. accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $689 and has fallen 92.6% since, to $51 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for facial plastic surgery clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $1,150.
Across 29 payments — averaging $42.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerin Medical Inc.$747
- Optinose US, Inc.$210
- GSK$124
- Stryker$60
- AbbVie$55
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$20
- plus $15 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$151%
- Travel & lodging$33727%
- Food & beverage$87871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerin Medical Inc. | 11 | $747 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 8 | $210 |
| GSK | 2 | $124 |
| Stryker | 3 | $60 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $55 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Mckesson Medical-surgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- VIVAER STYLUS$521
- Xhance$120
How this compares
$1,231 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 120 facial plastic surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth | 19 | $1,654 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil | 42 | $1,650 |
| Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc | 16 | $1,035 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 22 | $952 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 72 | $929 |
| Hydrocortisone-Acetic AcidHydrocortisone/Acetic Acid | 11 | $758 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 39 | $720 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 24 | $251 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $173 |
| Prednisone | 46 | $118 |
| Amoxicillin | 13 | $37 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $34 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 11 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other facial plastic surgery in Daly City
- Daryoush SaadatValencia$1.3M
- Kian KarimiLos Angeles$1.2M
- Rami BatnijiNewport Beach$1M
- Jill HesslerPalo Alto$114K
- Victor LacombeSanta Rosa$106K
- Alen CohenWest Hills$72K
- Bradley GreenePortola Valley$52K
- Geoffrey TrenkleLos Angeles$44K
- Elbert ChengSaratoga$38K
- Benjamin TaleiBeverly Hills$31K
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.