William Aukerman
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1932629250
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,922 of the $5,587 with a category attached, or 70.2%. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.2%.
Across 64 payments — averaging $87.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$467
- Synthes GmbH$458
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$451
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$442
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$414
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,22322%
- Food & beverage$3,92270%
- Education$4428%
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 | 12 | $1,128 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $467 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $458 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $451 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $442 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 3 | $414 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $299 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 2 | $256 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $246 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $200 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $179 |
| BD | 1 | $153 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $139 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $135 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $132 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $113 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $30 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- INTEGRA$1,138
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$689
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$429
- RECELL$414
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$323
- PRIMATRIX$280
- PERMEADERM$268
- Cohealyx$268
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$256
- Irrisept$179
- Phasix Mesh$153
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$152
- OMNIGRAFT$149
- SURGIMEND$149
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$138
- Surgicel Powder$129
- Mega Soft$129
- HARMONIC Product Family$122
- VISTASEAL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$122
- STRATAFIX$122
How this compares
$5,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 45 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Louisiana.
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Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $57 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in New Orleans
- Omer KaymakcalanNew Orleans$10K
- Suma MaddoxNew Orleans$6K
- Christopher SmithNew Orleans$5K
- Vidhur SohiniNew Orleans$5K
- Christopher BabycosNew Orleans$5K
- Daniel YooNew Orleans$4K
- Michael MosesNew Orleans$4K
- Katherine ChiassonNew Orleans$3K
- Heath CharvetNew Orleans$3K
- Stacy HendersonNew Orleans$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.