George Lawson, MD
Plastic Surgery · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1225185010
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,599 of the $5,279 with a category attached, or 68.2%. AbbVie accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,489 and has fallen 72.1% since, to $695 in 2025.
Across 131 payments — averaging $40.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$390
- Sientra, Inc.$380
- Smith+Nephew$167
- Osiris Therapeutics Inc.$110
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$106
- plus $743 from 16 others
Across 14 payments — averaging $860.21 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$9K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,68032%
- Food & beverage$3,59968%
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(2 entities) | 62 | $3,383 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 11 | $390 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 9 | $380 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $167 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 3 | $110 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $106 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $92 |
| Stryker | 2 | $90 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Vertex | 2 | $46 |
| Acell, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $35 |
| Lifenet Health | 2 | $32 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$5,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 128 plastic surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 40 | $202 |
| Cephalexin | 31 | $167 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 26 | $139 |
| Baclofen | 16 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Joseph MolnarWinston Salem$18K
- Christopher RunyanWinston Salem$18K
- Bennett CalderWinston Salem$4K
- Anthony DefranzoWinston Salem$4K
- Lisa DavidWinston Salem$3K
- Nicholas ClavinCharlotte$562K
- Luther HoltonWilmington$533K
- Theodore NyameCharlotte$364K
- Howard LevinsonDurham$167K
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.