Has Kristi Hustak received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,194 in general payments to Kristi Hustak across 191 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kristi Hustak did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kristi Hustak come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kristi Hustak

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1467611293

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $13,194 of the $18,194 with a category attached, or 72.5%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.7%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,135 and has fallen 76.9% since, to $1,647 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in TX 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.

$18,194in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 191 payments — averaging $95.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$3K
Motiva USA, LLC$3K
Sientra, Inc.$2K
AbbVie$2K
Davol Inc.$2K
Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
plus $5K from 17 others

$16,869in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $16,869 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.

Davol Inc.$17K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,00022%
Travel & lodging$7644%
Food & beverage$13,19473%
Education$250%
Other$2111%

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
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	3	$3,045
Motiva USA, LLC	17	$2,869
Sientra, Inc.	28	$2,495
AbbVie(2 entities)	48	$2,187
Davol Inc.	18	$1,874
Mentor Worldwide LLC	12	$1,072
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	12	$848
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	13	$743
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$563
Tepha Inc	4	$526
Medtronic	5	$420
TELA Bio, Inc.	3	$271
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$236
Axogen	2	$201
Johnson & Johnson	4	$158
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	1	$155
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$151
Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$106
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	3	$78
RTI Surgical, Inc	1	$67
Medline Industries LP	2	$59
Acacia Pharma Inc	2	$39
Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$29

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.

Motiva Implant Matrix$2,396
SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$1,593
Phasix Mesh$1,516
MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$816
NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$563
GalaFLEX$488
DAXXIFY$399
V-LOC 180$342
DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$325
NATRELLE$278
ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$256
BOTOX$225
BOTOX COSMETIC$188
OviTex 2S$175
VersaWrap$155
MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$149
APONVIE$122
Zynrelef$122
STRATAFIX$116
SURGICEL NU-KNIT$116

How this compares

$18,194 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 378 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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