Has Steven Bernard, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,672 in general payments to Steven Bernard, MD across 90 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 Steven Bernard, 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 Steven Bernard, 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.

Steven Bernard, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Cleveland, OHNPI 1215967732

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,670 of the $8,672 with a category attached, or 88.4%. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$8,672in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 90 payments — averaging $96.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
AbbVie$2K
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$898
Mentor Worldwide LLC$632
Axogen$452
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$305
plus $3K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,00212%
Food & beverage$7,67088%

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
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	14	$2,007
AbbVie(2 entities)	29	$1,826
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	12	$898
Mentor Worldwide LLC	7	$632
Axogen	5	$452
Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated	2	$305
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$298
Avita Medical Americas, LLC	2	$278
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$248
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$234
Kerecis Limited	1	$184
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$171
Smith+Nephew	2	$157
Dilon Technologies, Inc.	2	$146
Sientra, Inc.	1	$144
Bone Support Inc.	1	$134
Convatec Inc.	1	$124
Polarityte, Inc.	1	$121
Amgen	1	$114
Teleflex LLC	1	$112
Motiva USA, LLC	1	$89

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

$8,672 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 78 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$38,708

Medicare patients

Services billed

160

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.

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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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