Has Stephen Chen, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,562 in general payments to Stephen Chen, MD across 123 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 Stephen Chen, MD 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 Stephen Chen, MD 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.

Stephen Chen, MD

Plastic Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1245313311

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.3% of the total across 123 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,315 and has fallen 79.9% since, to $465 in 2025.

$8,562in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 123 payments — averaging $69.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sientra, Inc.$2K
AbbVie$1K
Davol Inc.$1K
Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$785
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.$340
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$350%
Speaking & faculty fees$3704%
Food & beverage$8,15795%

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
Sientra, Inc.	20	$1,962
AbbVie(2 entities)	17	$1,377
Davol Inc.	12	$1,234
Mentor Worldwide LLC	25	$1,149
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	6	$785
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	13	$340
Tepha Inc	6	$281
Apyx Medical Corporation	2	$251
Motiva USA, LLC	6	$227
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$203
Polynovo North America LLC	1	$166
Baxter Healthcare	1	$133
Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$123
TELA Bio, Inc.	1	$117
Medtronic	2	$52
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$50
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$30
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$30
Misonix Inc	1	$27
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$14
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	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.

SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$1,584
Phasix Mesh$578
ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$448
MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$382
NATRELLE$373
ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$346
MemoryGel Breast Implants$244
Novosorb BTM$166
Motiva Implant Matrix$144
ALLODERM$143
DAXXIFY$141
No Related Product$133
OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$117
BOTOX$109
OPDIVO$106

How this compares

$8,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 121 plastic surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$25,382

Medicare patients

Services billed

112

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	16	$102
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	11	$71

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.

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