Jerome Chao
Plastic Surgery · Latham, NYNPI 1467474866
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 149 payments — averaging $39.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$733
- Sientra, Inc.$566
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$455
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$320
- Merz North America, Inc.$274
- plus $798 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,06418%
- Food & beverage$4,81082%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 80 | $2,728 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 12 | $733 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 5 | $566 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 21 | $455 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 6 | $320 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $274 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 7 | $229 |
| Vertex | 4 | $182 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $162 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $22 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 363 plastic surgery providers in New York.
Other plastic surgery in Latham
- Lucie CapekLatham$20K
- Sachin ShridharaniNew York$3.9M
- Nolan KarpNew York$1.1M
- Scot GlasbergNew York$959K
- Michael LacquaBrooklyn$865K
- Sydney ColemanNew York$729K
- David RapaportNew York$585K
- Michael KaneNew York$544K
- Richard SwiftNew York$487K
- Z LorencNew York$397K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.