Has Rahm Nazerali, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,512,842 in general payments to Rahm Nazerali, MD across 873 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 Rahm Nazerali, MD 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 Rahm Nazerali, MD 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.

Rahm Nazerali, MD

Plastic Surgery · Palo Alto, CANPI 1346401841

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,186,436 of the $1,512,842 with a category attached, or 78.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by TELA Bio, Inc. at 36.1% of the total. Among plastic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,512,842in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 873 payments — averaging $1732.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

TELA Bio, Inc.$546K
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$533K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$282K
Mentor Worldwide LLC$101K
Johnson & Johnson$49K
Johnson And Johnson International$1K
plus $2K from 7 others

$60,000in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $30,000 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.

TELA Bio, Inc.$60K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,186,43678%
Speaking & faculty fees$21,9751%
Travel & lodging$95,7406%
Food & beverage$33,6902%
Other$175,00012%

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
TELA Bio, Inc.	274	$545,560
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	241	$532,671
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	189	$281,721
Mentor Worldwide LLC	125	$100,688
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	24	$49,366
Johnson And Johnson International	9	$1,247
Davol Inc.	1	$375
Stryker	1	$366
Sientra, Inc.	4	$358
Motiva USA, LLC	2	$223
Tepha Inc	1	$129
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$123
TEI Biosciences Inc	1	$13

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.

OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$297,343
MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$70,202
OviTex 2S$64,498
STRATAFIX$45,884
ECHELON ENDOPATH$44,555
Enseal$44,555
Harmonic$44,555
ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$15,942
MemoryGel Breast Implants$15,686
CENTERSCOPE Magnetic Detection Device$14,586
FlexHD Acellular Hydrated Dermis$14,586
MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implant$14,417
MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$7,765
Ovitex$3,750
MemoryShape Breast Implants$883
SILTEX Breast Implants$883
VICRYL$770
PHASIX$375
SPY-PHI SYSTEM$366
SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$273

How this compares

$1,512,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$99,461

Medicare patients

125

Services billed

254

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.

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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.

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