Walter Lin, MD
Plastic Surgery · San Francisco, CANPI 1679862635
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $41,525 of the $68,423 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Alafair Biosciences, Inc. accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 36 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $47,331, more than ten times the $4,339 reported in 2019. 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 188 payments — averaging $363.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alafair Biosciences, Inc.$52K
- Axogen$9K
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$3K
- Baxter Healthcare$667
- Polynovo North America LLC$417
- Stryker$373
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,9697%
- Speaking & faculty fees$41,52561%
- Travel & lodging$12,75419%
- Food & beverage$9,08513%
- Education$900%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 63 | $52,452 |
| Axogen | 34 | $9,399 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 11 | $2,599 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $667 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 5 | $417 |
| Stryker | 3 | $373 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 5 | $366 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $197 |
| Tulavi Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $196 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $186 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 5 | $153 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 5 | $142 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $113 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $103 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $97 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $64 |
| Vertex | 2 | $63 |
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $59 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $44 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $34 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 2 | $18 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- VersaWrap$51,307
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$7,560
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$7,560
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$5,178
- Flexitouch Plus$2,353
- Entre Plus$2,235
- No Related Product$569
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$521
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$521
- Novosorb BTM$339
- VARIAX$329
- INTEGRA$300
- RECELL$298
- Nerve Tape$197
- ALLAY NERVE CAP - SMALL NERVE SET$196
- VANTAGE$171
- PERMEADERM$139
- Cohealyx$139
- Nimbl$118
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$100
How this compares
$68,423 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.
Other plastic surgery in San Francisco
- Anne PeledSan Francisco$570K
- Hani SbitanySan Francisco$510K
- Ziv PeledSan Francisco$169K
- Jonathan KaplanSan Francisco$113K
- Dino ElyassniaSan Francisco$108K
- Khashayar MohebaliSan Francisco$75K
- Rahm NazeraliPalo Alto$1.5M
- Vipul DevBakersfield$1.1M
- Arash MomeniPalo Alto$836K
- Salvatore PacellaSan Diego$517K
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.