Steven Teitelbaum
Plastic Surgery · Santa Monica, CANPI 1356471882
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $47,919 of the $62,461 with a category attached, or 76.7%. AbbVie accounts for 79.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $46,187 and has fallen 78.5% since, to $9,949 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 195 payments — averaging $320.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$50K
- Motiva USA, LLC$10K
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$631
- Tepha Inc$397
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$322
- plus $540 from 4 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $648.08 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.
- Motiva USA, LLC$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$47,91977%
- Travel & lodging$6,26410%
- Food & beverage$6,84711%
- Gifts$1,1142%
- Other$3181%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 127 | $49,661 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 15 | $9,602 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 19 | $1,309 |
| Davol Inc. | 10 | $631 |
| Tepha Inc | 8 | $397 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 8 | $322 |
| Surgical Innovation Associates, Inc. | 1 | $318 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $113 |
| Vertex | 2 | $62 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $47 |
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$29,865
- ALLODERM$15,084
- Motiva Implant Matrix$8,938
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,313
- REVOLVE$1,080
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$830
- Motiva SmoothSilk Round Breast Implant$340
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$318
- Phasix Mesh$292
- GalaFLEX$134
How this compares
$62,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.
Other plastic surgery in Santa Monica
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.5M
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$836K
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$570K
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
- Hani SbitanySan Francisco$510K
- John ApostolidesSan Diego$460K
- Garrett WirthNewport Beach$362K
- Michael BainNewport Beach$341K
- Joshua KormanMountain View$335K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.