Meredith Collins, MD
Plastic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1356509285
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.5%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by RTI Surgical, Inc at 48.2% of the total.
Across 78 payments — averaging $146.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- RTI Surgical, Inc$6K
- AbbVie$1K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$723
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$718
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$483
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,10044%
- Food & beverage$6,36055%
- Education$10%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 7 | $5,521 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $1,010 |
| Davol Inc. | 9 | $1,010 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 9 | $723 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 10 | $718 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $483 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 3 | $334 |
| Axogen | 6 | $320 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $281 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $194 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $141 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $121 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $110 |
| BD | 1 | $58 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
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.
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$5,521
- Phasix Mesh$621
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$609
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$369
- ALLODERM$265
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$255
- Motiva Implant Matrix$247
- Duramesh$194
- ARISTA$163
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$151
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$143
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$141
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$138
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$122
- PICO 14$121
- RENASYS TOUCH$121
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$120
- Irrisept$118
- RECELL$118
- Cohealyx$118
How this compares
$11,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 49 plastic surgery providers in Louisiana.
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 | 15 | $132 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in New Orleans
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- Shoichiro TanakaNew Orleans$20K
- Mark StalderNew Orleans$8K
- Christopher GoodenoughNew Orleans$8K
- Radbeh TorabiNew Orleans$5K
- Adam HauchNew Orleans$5K
- Prasanth PatchaNew Orleans$5K
- Hugo St HilaireNew Orleans$4K
- John HoltropNew Orleans$4K
- Russell HendrickNew Orleans$1K
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.