Joshua Nelson, MD
Plastic Surgery · Chandler, AZNPI 1669811121
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.2% of the total across 44 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Integra Lifesciences Corporation at 25.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $936 and has fallen 58.3% since, to $390 in 2025.
Across 44 payments — averaging $72.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$810
- Sientra, Inc.$677
- Davol Inc.$475
- Axogen$404
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$376
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$194
- plus $243 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,96593%
- Other$2157%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $810 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 13 | $677 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $475 |
| Axogen | 5 | $404 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 8 | $376 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $194 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $158 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| BD | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 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.
- INTEGRA$604
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$347
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$322
- Phasix Mesh$313
- PRIMATRIX$310
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$310
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$284
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$243
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$243
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$243
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$243
- CYTAL$215
- OviTex 2S$158
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$149
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$149
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$140
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$135
- AMNIOEXCEL$135
- IDRT$135
- FLOWABLE$135
How this compares
$3,180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 123 plastic surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 17 | $204 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 11 | $185 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Chandler
- Rimma FinkelChandler$7K
- Oren TesslerGilbert$88K
- Bryan GawleyScottsdale$78K
- Salvatore LettieriPhoenix$72K
- Alanna RebeccaPhoenix$43K
- Stephen BealsParadise Valley$40K
- Peter KayTucson$23K
- Aldo GuerraPhoenix$21K
- Gwendolyn MaxwellTucson$17K
- Davinder SinghPhoenix$15K
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.