Joseph Ku, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Riverside, CANPI 1649393760
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by gifts: $30,048 of the $33,394 with a category attached, or 90.0%. AbbVie accounts for 96.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,336 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $80 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 89 payments — averaging $375.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$32K
- Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$454
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$240
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$190
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$133
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$78
- plus $201 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,0413%
- Food & beverage$2,3057%
- Gifts$30,04890%
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) | 47 | $32,097 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $454 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 16 | $240 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 6 | $190 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $133 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $78 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Vertex | 2 | $51 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $41 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $33 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 1 | $7 |
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.
- NATRELLE$30,048
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,444
- REVOLVE$1,222
- DAXXIFY$134
How this compares
$33,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 349 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 21 | $192 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $129 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 16 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Riverside
- 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
- Jeffrey HammoudehLos Angeles$159K
- Geoffrey GurtnerPalo Alto$127K
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.