Rahul Vemula, MD
Plastic Surgery · West Long Branch, NJNPI 1053572024
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (39.7%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sientra, Inc. at 40.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,711 and has fallen 73.9% since, to $2,538 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in NJ 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.
Across 163 payments — averaging $144.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sientra, Inc.$10K
- AbbVie$5K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$876
- plus $3K from 23 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $342.30 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.
- Davol Inc.$342
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,80029%
- Travel & lodging$7,17130%
- Food & beverage$9,33140%
- Other$2111%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sientra, Inc. | 22 | $9,501 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 44 | $5,194 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 10 | $1,992 |
| Stryker | 2 | $1,418 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 11 | $1,358 |
| Davol Inc. | 16 | $876 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $558 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $449 |
| Axogen | 6 | $375 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 6 | $360 |
| Convatec Inc. | 7 | $313 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $259 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 2 | $115 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $98 |
| Cashflow Solutions, LLC | 4 | $55 |
| Vertex | 3 | $52 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 2 | $51 |
| BD | 1 | $46 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $13 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $12 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 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.
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$9,059
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,031
- ALLODERM$1,815
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$1,722
- OviTex 2S$1,620
- Kerecis SurgiClose$1,450
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,418
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$591
- Kerecis GraftGuide$363
- DAXXIFY$290
- InnovaMatrix AC$238
- Motiva Implant Matrix$238
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$211
- Restrata Wound Matrix$161
- Bard 3DMax Mesh$155
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$148
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$145
- Phasix Mesh$143
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$111
How this compares
$23,513 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 170 plastic surgery providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cefadroxil | 41 | $223 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 23 | $164 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $121 |
| Mupirocin | 20 | $119 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 19 | $101 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in West Long Branch
- Steven DavisCherry Hill$349K
- Caroline GlicksmanSea Girt$239K
- Asaad SamraHolmdel$224K
- Travis LaverneVoorhees Township$119K
- Joseph RacanelliMorristown$90K
- Fares SamraHolmdel$54K
- Anthony LombardiEatontown$42K
- Alexander AuMarlton$28K
- Alex WongNewark$23K
- Evan SorokinCherry Hill$23K
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.