Stephen Becker, MD
Plastic Surgery · Alcoa, TNNPI 1164628145
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $9,800 of the $15,001 with a category attached, or 65.3%. Mentor Worldwide LLC accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,164 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $112 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $129.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$15K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$99
- Merz North America, Inc.$97
- AbbVie$93
- Organogenesis Inc.$63
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$33
- plus $41 from 2 others
Across 331 payments — averaging $1018.26 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.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$296K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$41K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8005%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,80065%
- Travel & lodging$1,3049%
- Food & beverage$3,09721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 94 | $14,575 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 7 | $99 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $97 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $93 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 5 | $63 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $33 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- FlexHD Acellular Hydrated Dermis$336
- MemoryGel Breast Implants$336
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$310
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$226
- MENTOR CPX 4 BREAST TISSUE EXPANDER$149
- MemoryShape Breast Implants$113
- MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implant$113
- MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$109
How this compares
$15,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 89 plastic surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 | 36 | $709 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 17 | $141 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 26 | $140 |
| Mupirocin | 13 | $121 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Alcoa
- George MaxwellNashville$48.3M
- Gaurav BhartiJohnson City$527K
- Jacob UngerNashville$153K
- Kristina OshaughnessyFranklin$142K
- Brian TierneyNashville$52K
- David ReathKnoxville$46K
- James WendelNashville$36K
- Ronald GilmerNashville$36K
- Kent HigdonFranklin$36K
- Steven BengelsdorfFranklin$35K
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.