Pooya Ataii
Plastic Surgery · San Diego, CANPI 1568629210
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $12,714 of the $17,670 with a category attached, or 72.0%. AbbVie accounts for 90.1% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,274 and has fallen 87.9% since, to $1,240 in 2025.
Across 236 payments — averaging $74.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$16K
- Merz North America, Inc.$825
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$597
- Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$174
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$91
- DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$64
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,71472%
- Food & beverage$4,95628%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 193 | $15,919 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 6 | $825 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 27 | $597 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $174 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $91 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
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.
- BOTOX$405
How this compares
$17,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.
Other plastic surgery in San Diego
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
- John ApostolidesSan Diego$460K
- James ChaoSan Diego$328K
- Jason TorantoSan Diego$73K
- Christopher ReidSan Diego$66K
- Ahmed SulimanSan Diego$30K
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.5M
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$836K
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$570K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.