Stephen Lu
Plastic Surgery · New Hyde Park, NYNPI 1952745697
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 27 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,298 and has fallen 82.3% since, to $762 in 2025.
Across 157 payments — averaging $106.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- Axogen$3K
- Trice Medical, Inc.$2K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,87147%
- Food & beverage$8,70652%
- Education$1331%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 13 | $3,319 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 20 | $3,150 |
| Axogen | 31 | $2,581 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 3 | $1,677 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 12 | $1,643 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,048 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 17 | $704 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 16 | $587 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 5 | $541 |
| Davol Inc. | 6 | $307 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $188 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 4 | $106 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $98 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $97 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $87 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $63 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $45 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $14 |
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$2,633
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$2,368
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,913
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,829
- Segway blade or mieye camera$1,641
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,317
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,317
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$994
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$994
- MATRIXCOMBO$943
- VSP ORTHOGNATHIC$663
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$607
- INTEGRA$339
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$240
- Phasix Mesh$203
- Ovitex$123
- SkinTE$122
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$122
- DERMABOND PRINEO$115
- Mega Soft$115
How this compares
$16,711 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 363 plastic surgery providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cefadroxil | 26 | $173 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in New Hyde Park
- Neil TannaNew Hyde Park$15K
- Sachin ShridharaniNew York$1.1M
- Scot GlasbergNew York$959K
- Nolan KarpNew York$900K
- Michael LacquaBrooklyn$865K
- Sydney ColemanNew York$729K
- David RapaportNew York$578K
- Richard SwiftNew York$487K
- Michael KaneNew York$250K
- Z LorencNew York$225K
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.