Robert Garza, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1841406063
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,174 of the $5,568 with a category attached, or 75.0%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Elutia, Inc. at 28.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,297, 5.6 times the $411 reported in 2019.
Across 126 payments — averaging $44.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elutia, Inc.$2K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- AbbVie$845
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$389
- Biocomposites Inc$345
- Sientra, Inc.$314
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,06819%
- Food & beverage$4,17475%
- Other$3266%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elutia, Inc. | 5 | $1,558 |
| Smith+Nephew | 69 | $1,081 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 19 | $845 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $389 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 4 | $345 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 6 | $314 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 5 | $288 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 3 | $186 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Stryker | 1 | $126 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $39 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 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.
- ECM Patch,Pouch$1,378
- Stravix$553
- Oasis$419
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$351
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$326
- Stimulan$296
- GRAFIX PL$280
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$202
- XEOMIN$155
- NATRELLE$148
- Grafix$140
- NONE$126
- LIBTAYO$105
How this compares
$5,568 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 77 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 39 | $278 |
| Cephalexin | 16 | $114 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $47 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Nashville
- Daniel HatefNashville$673K
- Lois WagstromNashville$19K
- Jordi Puente EspelNashville$16K
- Galen PerdikisNashville$7K
- Matthew PontellNashville$7K
- Omotayo ArowojoluNashville$4K
- Lauren ConnorNashville$4K
- John HillNashville$3K
- Panambur Laxminaraya BhandariNashville$3K
- William LineaweaverNashville$2K
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.