Vijay Bindingnavele
Plastic Surgery · Corpus Christi, TXNPI 1497940951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.0%), gifts and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 70.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,775 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $151 in 2025.
Across 89 payments — averaging $65.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$4K
- Merz North America, Inc.$1K
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$216
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$135
- Sientra, Inc.$98
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$94
- plus $110 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$250%
- Food & beverage$3,06853%
- Gifts$2,70047%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 60 | $4,078 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 9 | $1,062 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $216 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 5 | $135 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $94 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $28 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
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
$5,793 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.
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.
Other plastic surgery in Corpus Christi
- Kevin HopkinsCorpus Christi$25K
- Younghoon ChoHouston$1.2M
- David AdelmanHouston$405K
- Rodney RohrichDallas$388K
- Regina FearmontiSan Antonio$340K
- Warren EllsworthHouston$284K
- Camille CashHouston$212K
- Robert YarishHouston$180K
- Gerhard MundingerWest Lake Hills$166K
- Steven CampFort Worth$159K
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.