Vipul Dev, MD
Plastic Surgery · Bakersfield, CANPI 1891702122
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 663 payments — averaging $1613.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$1.1M
- Smith+Nephew$4K
- Polarityte, Inc.$2K
- Nevro Corp.$618
- Stimlabs LLC$503
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$434
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$892,88783%
- Speaking & faculty fees$128,62212%
- Travel & lodging$34,8063%
- Food & beverage$13,2901%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 307 | $1,060,971 |
| Smith+Nephew | 244 | $4,219 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 6 | $1,508 |
| Nevro Corp. | 18 | $618 |
| Stimlabs LLC | 10 | $503 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 17 | $434 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 8 | $318 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 19 | $158 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $97 |
| Tepha Inc | 1 | $97 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $79 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $51 |
| Stryker | 2 | $50 |
| GSK | 1 | $31 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $30 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Axogen | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Apligraf$629,470
- Dermagraft$261,548
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$261,548
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$247,087
- NuShield$195,087
- Puraply Antimicrobial$188,579
- PuraPly$171,979
- Affinity$2,535
- NOVACHOR$2,535
- SkinTE$1,445
- Stravix$378
- GRAFIX PL$259
- Oasis$245
- Novosorb BTM$120
- Grafix$119
- PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$102
- CORPLEX P$102
How this compares
$1,069,609 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gentamicin Sulfate | 136 | $9,960 |
| SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist. | 13 | $4,863 |
| Diflorasone Diacetate | 11 | $3,528 |
| Calcipotriene | 15 | $3,245 |
| SsdSilver Sulfadiazine | 90 | $1,590 |
| Fluorouracil | 17 | $1,259 |
| Cephalexin | 107 | $742 |
| Silver Sulfadiazine | 49 | $652 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 57 | $562 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 90 | $387 |
| Mupirocin | 22 | $289 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 24 | $253 |
| Levofloxacin | 15 | $210 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 13 | $206 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $150 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+NephewSantyl | $4,219 | $4,86313 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 780 plastic surgery providers in California.
Other plastic surgery in Bakersfield
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.6M
- Dennis AndersonSan Bernardino$1.3M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$919K
- Anshu GuptaEncinitas$682K
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$623K
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
- Hani SbitanySan Francisco$510K
- John ApostolidesSan Diego$460K
- Garrett WirthNewport Beach$362K
- Michael BainNewport Beach$341K
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.