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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,857 in general payments to Stephen Schell, MD across 60 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 Schell, 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 Schell, 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 Schell, MD

Facial Plastic Surgery · Erie, PANPI 1134170939

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 60 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 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $994, 9.8 times the $101 reported in 2019.

$1,857in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $30.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sanofi$387
Smith+Nephew$253
Aerin Medical Inc.$224
GSK$222
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$178
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$165
plus $428 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,857100%

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
Sanofi	12	$387
Smith+Nephew	6	$253
Aerin Medical Inc.	2	$224
GSK	14	$222
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$178
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$165
Stryker	1	$150
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$48
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	3	$48
Optinose US, Inc.	3	$45
Alk-abello, Inc	2	$33
Amgen	2	$31
Merck	2	$28
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$26
Johnson & Johnson	1	$19

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.

How this compares

Too few facial plastic surgery providers in Pennsylvaniato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$148,879

Medicare patients

474

Services billed

3,757

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
Mometasone Furoate	123	$7,262
Epinephrine	28	$5,538
Fluticasone Propionate	383	$3,809
Cephalexin	98	$1,772
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	63	$829
Mupirocin	110	$716
Omeprazole	59	$635
Pantoprazole Sodium	42	$405
Montelukast Sodium	59	$399
Famotidine	34	$321
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	44	$302
Azelastine Hcl	12	$236
Meclizine Hcl	31	$219
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	28	$155
Doxycycline Hyclate	19	$123

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other facial plastic surgery in Erie

Kirk SteehlerErie$3K
Scott GaynerHarrisburg$31K
Robert ChiuPittsburgh$1K
Christopher HovePaoli$926
Catherine WengWayne$778
Christina YverPittsburgh$607
Sinehan BayrakWest Chester$593
Edgar del Toro DiezHershey$464
Rahul NaiduLatrobe$435
Hilary SalesElkins Park$250

See the full list for Pennsylvania →

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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