Steven Cohen
Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck · San Diego, CANPI 1508993742
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $5,024 of the $7,682 with a category attached, or 65.4%. Stryker accounts for 65.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,285 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $430 in 2025.
Across 65 payments — averaging $118.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$5K
- Sientra, Inc.$646
- AbbVie$406
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$298
- Apyx Medical Corporation$267
- TELA Bio, Inc.$202
- plus $839 from 11 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $4517.18 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.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$34K
- AbbVie$20K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$5,02465%
- Food & beverage$2,65735%
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 | 2 | $5,024 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 9 | $646 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $406 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 7 | $298 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 5 | $267 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $202 |
| Axogen | 1 | $145 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 4 | $127 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $117 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 6 | $99 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $89 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $72 |
| BD | 1 | $56 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $56 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $24 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$7,682 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 119 plastic surgery within the head and neck providers in California.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $192 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 27 | $106 |
| Cephalexin | 12 | $59 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery within the head and neck in San Diego
- Sassan AlaviSan Diego$6K
- William BinderBeverly Hills$136.4M
- Jivianne LeeSanta Monica$324K
- John JosephEncino$252K
- Rajesh ChopraBeverly Hills$75K
- Ronald KochMountain View$37K
- Rahul SethWalnut Creek$32K
- Yarah HaidarOrange$31K
- Amar GuptaRiverside$26K
- Donald YooBeverly Hills$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.