Has Rami Batniji received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,009,209 in general payments to Rami Batniji across 644 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 Rami Batniji 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 Rami Batniji 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.

Rami Batniji

Facial Plastic Surgery · Newport Beach, CANPI 1467534644

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $281,148 and has fallen 75.0% since, to $70,291 in 2025. Among facial 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.

$1,009,209in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 644 payments — averaging $1567.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1M
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$190
Acclarent, Inc$22

$25in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $24.51 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.

AbbVie$25

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$486,65448%
Speaking & faculty fees$433,82643%
Travel & lodging$74,6467%
Food & beverage$13,9051%
Education$1790%

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)	634	$1,008,996
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	9	$190
Acclarent, Inc	1	$22

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$247,414
BOTOX COSMETIC$231,419
NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$62,770
REVOLVE$12,498

How this compares

$1,009,209 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 120 facial plastic surgery providers in California.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Doxycycline Monohydrate	22	$285
Methylprednisolone	52	$253
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	32	$238
Cephalexin	30	$146
Lorazepam	31	$80
Ondansetron Hcl	27	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other facial plastic surgery in Newport Beach

Kevin SadatiNewport Beach$5K
Daryoush SaadatValencia$1.3M
Kian KarimiLos Angeles$1.2M
Jill HesslerPalo Alto$114K
Victor LacombeSanta Rosa$106K
Alen CohenWest Hills$72K
Bradley GreenePortola Valley$52K
Geoffrey TrenkleLos Angeles$44K
Elbert ChengSaratoga$38K
Benjamin TaleiBeverly Hills$31K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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