Paul Sauer, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1033572730
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.0%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axogen at 43.4% of the total.
Across 40 payments — averaging $150.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- Kerecis Limited$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$488
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$142
- AbbVie$139
- plus $448 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,24754%
- Food & beverage$2,64844%
- Education$1192%
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 | 12 | $2,608 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $1,146 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $1,042 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $488 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $139 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 4 | $119 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $88 |
| Stryker | 1 | $42 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Kerecis SurgiClose$3,667
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$2,300
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,928
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,928
- INTEGRA$919
- Kerecis GraftGuide$917
- OMNIGRAFT$459
- SURGIMEND$459
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$459
- ALLODERM$139
- NUZYRA$125
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$115
How this compares
$6,013 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 35 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Alabama.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $128 |
| Cephalexin | 13 | $56 |
| Ibuprofen | 12 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Birmingham
- Brad DenneyBirmingham$21K
- Michael BeckensteinBirmingham$10K
- Robert OliverBirmingham$7K
- Jonathan AntonettiBirmingham$4K
- Richard FixBirmingham$2K
- Jorge de la TorreBirmingham$1K
- William RifkinBirmingham$1K
- Alexandre PrassinosBirmingham$885
- Luis VasconezBirmingham$160
- John GrantBirmingham$52
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.