Nicholas Kim, MD
Plastic Surgery · Minneapolis, MNNPI 1073837506
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,380 of the $9,451 with a category attached, or 67.5%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axogen at 42.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,453 and has fallen 59.2% since, to $1,408 in 2025.
Across 60 payments — averaging $157.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$4K
- AbbVie$2K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$887
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$367
- TELA Bio, Inc.$328
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$251
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,07132%
- Food & beverage$6,38068%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 17 | $4,010 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $2,166 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $887 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 3 | $367 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $328 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $251 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $244 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $212 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $196 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $171 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $140 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Stryker | 1 | $91 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $57 |
| Gemini Medical LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $46 |
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.
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$3,474
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$3,474
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,627
- INTEGRA$1,530
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$1,069
- REVOLVE$1,069
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$799
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$690
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$567
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$567
- OMNIGRAFT$539
- SURGIMEND$539
- OviTex 2S$303
- URGOCLEAN AG$251
- Checkpoint Stimulators$212
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$201
- Irrisept$171
- PRIMATRIX$151
- ALLODERM$150
- T. Ox Tissue Oximeter$140
How this compares
$9,451 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 106 plastic surgery providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other plastic surgery in Minneapolis
- Douglas GervaisMinneapolis$11K
- Thomas SuszynskiMinneapolis$7K
- Emma CordesMinneapolis$5K
- Mohammad Umar ChoudryMinneapolis$2K
- David ShaferRochester$1.5M
- Steven MoranRochester$277K
- Valerie LemaineBloomington$233K
- Craig JohnsonSaint Paul$54K
- Warren SchubertSaint Paul$24K
- Kitty WuRochester$18K
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.