Richard Wassermann, MD
Plastic Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1336191931
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $68,200 of the $76,989 with a category attached, or 88.6%. TELA Bio, Inc. accounts for 70.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $51,960 and has fallen 99.1% since, to $483 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in SC 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 140 payments — averaging $549.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- TELA Bio, Inc.$55K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$18K
- AbbVie$4K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$313
- Sientra, Inc.$155
- Merz North America, Inc.$153
- plus $305 from 7 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $250.00 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.
- Sientra, Inc.$250
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$68,20089%
- Travel & lodging$4,3236%
- Food & beverage$4,4666%
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. | 43 | $54,609 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 7 | $17,953 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 60 | $3,502 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 11 | $313 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 8 | $155 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Stryker | 2 | $133 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $47 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $44 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $25 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$76,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 65 plastic surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 31 | $961 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 19 | $557 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 53 | $340 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 11 | $331 |
| Scopolamine | 22 | $240 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 41 | $160 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $133 |
| Gabapentin | 40 | $124 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 17 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Columbia
- Kayla HumenanskyColumbia$26K
- Gregory SextonColumbia$21K
- Tarik MujadzicColumbia$4K
- Nicole JonesColumbia$4K
- Steven HermizColumbia$3K
- Elliott ChenColumbia$3K
- Harold FriedmanColumbia$2K
- Jack McCarthyColumbia$1K
- Peter HainesColumbia$1K
- Donen DavisColumbia$701
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.