Charles Kays, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Wilmington, NCNPI 1689676611
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $51,000 of the $68,589 with a category attached, or 74.4%. Stryker accounts for 82.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $41,744 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $1,149 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 136 payments — averaging $504.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$56K
- AbbVie$10K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$2K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$234
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$104
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$20
- plus $36 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$51,00074%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,37412%
- Travel & lodging$5,0817%
- Food & beverage$4,1256%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 25 | $56,315 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 84 | $10,032 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 20 | $1,849 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 3 | $234 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $104 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- SPY TECHNOLOGY$34,774
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$19,000
- DERMACELL$16,637
- 1688 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$13,500
- 1288 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$4,500
- 1188 HD AUTOCLAVABLE CAMERA$4,500
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$1,304
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$520
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$227
- OviTex 2S$121
- SURGIMEND$104
How this compares
$68,589 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 55 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in North Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 34 | $412 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 15 | $144 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 14 | $77 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 14 | $76 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 12 | $49 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 21 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Wilmington
- Mark MorganWilmington$23K
- Kenneth WhiteWilmington$9K
- Jeffrey ChurchWilmington$6K
- Tor LjungWilmington$3K
- Jeffrey MarcusDurham$3.3M
- Anuja AntonyCary$326K
- Peter ArnoldGreensboro$206K
- Joseph HunstadCharlotte$144K
- Charles HultmanRaleigh$70K
- Brian CoanCary$41K
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.