Joseph Bauer
Plastic Surgery · Alpharetta, GANPI 1942343454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,332 of the $4,625 with a category attached, or 72.1%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 47.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,330 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $460 in 2025.
Across 148 payments — averaging $31.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$970
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$884
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$489
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$22
- Acacia Pharma Inc$17
- plus $27 from 2 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $4745.91 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.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$77K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,25027%
- Food & beverage$3,33272%
- Education$421%
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) | 52 | $2,215 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 58 | $970 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 27 | $884 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $489 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
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.
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$122
- MemoryGel SILTEX Round Breast Implants$116
- MemoryShape Breast Implants$106
How this compares
$4,625 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 163 plastic surgery providers in Georgia.
Other plastic surgery in Alpharetta
- David HillAlpharetta$10K
- Amy AldermanAlpharetta$6K
- David ZabelAugusta$511K
- Albert LoskenAtlanta$436K
- Jonathan NguyenAtlanta$364K
- Brian MaloneyAtlanta$224K
- Michael McNeelMarietta$160K
- Farzad NahaiAtlanta$129K
- Michael KluskaCommerce$58K
- Sara NeimanisAtlanta$51K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.