Duncan Hughes
Plastic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1871742775
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $47,607 of the $68,153 with a category attached, or 69.9%. AbbVie accounts for 92.1% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $31,509 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $416 in 2025. Among plastic 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 275 payments — averaging $247.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$63K
- Motiva USA, LLC$3K
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$522
- Merz North America, Inc.$412
- Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$68
- plus $98 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,5004%
- Speaking & faculty fees$47,60770%
- Travel & lodging$3,4785%
- Food & beverage$11,84617%
- Education$220%
- Gifts$2,7004%
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) | 234 | $62,747 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 4 | $2,818 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 19 | $1,489 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $522 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 8 | $412 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $68 |
| Stability Biologics, LLC | 1 | $58 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
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.
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$6,590
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$3,796
- NATRELLE$3,167
- Motiva Implant Matrix$2,783
- REVOLVE$2,151
- GalaFLEX$1,031
- BOTOX$506
- Phasix Mesh$393
- BOTOX COSMETIC$350
- ALLODERM$116
- XEOMIN$105
- ASCLERA$105
How this compares
$68,153 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 128 plastic surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other plastic surgery in Durham
- Howard LevinsonDurham$167K
- Suhail MithaniDurham$146K
- David BrownDurham$16K
- Detlev ErdmannDurham$14K
- Linda CendalesDurham$8K
- Scott HollenbeckDurham$7K
- Ashit PatelDurham$6K
- Nicholas ClavinCharlotte$562K
- Luther HoltonWilmington$533K
- Theodore NyameCharlotte$364K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.