Sanam Zahedi, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1215357215
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 26.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,979, 4.8 times the $822 reported in 2019.
Across 132 payments — averaging $125.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Motiva USA, LLC$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$2K
- Sequoia Surgical, Inc.$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$1K
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5169%
- Travel & lodging$3,86223%
- Food & beverage$9,95160%
- Education$1,2007%
- Gifts$871%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 32 | $4,468 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 7 | $3,036 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 7 | $1,956 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 21 | $1,835 |
| Sequoia Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $1,210 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 22 | $1,046 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $821 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 14 | $713 |
| Axogen | 5 | $335 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 2 | $251 |
| Tepha Inc | 1 | $145 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $129 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $119 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Stryker | 1 | $103 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 2 | $73 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $44 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$5,300
- Motiva Implant Matrix$2,924
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$2,369
- REVOLVE$2,369
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$1,306
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$252
- SkinTE$251
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$237
- PRIMATRIX$237
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$218
- MOLLI$206
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$147
- GalaFLEX$145
- ALLODERM$140
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$132
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$132
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$131
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$131
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$131
- Watchman$129
How this compares
$16,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 235 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Florida.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 17 | $149 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $68 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $54 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.