Howard Levinson, MD
Plastic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1033221072
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $125,431 of the $167,002 with a category attached, or 75.1%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 89.6% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $72,799, more than ten times the $1,849 reported in 2019. Among plastic surgery clinicians in NC 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 240 payments — averaging $695.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$150K
- Davol Inc.$6K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$997
- Lifenet Health$862
- plus $4K from 16 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $7028.06 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.
- Davol Inc.$35K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$125,43175%
- Speaking & faculty fees$22,25013%
- Travel & lodging$6,1654%
- Food & beverage$13,1088%
- Entertainment$490%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 78 | $149,604 |
| Davol Inc. | 14 | $5,956 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 35 | $3,071 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 37 | $2,992 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 16 | $997 |
| Lifenet Health | 11 | $862 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $593 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 10 | $495 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 3 | $420 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $269 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $220 |
| Somavac Medical Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $209 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $209 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 4 | $204 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $192 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 2 | $191 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Vioptix Inc | 3 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $107 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $68 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $64 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $30 |
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.
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$109,255
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$106,028
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$105,743
- SYNECOR Biomaterial$19,643
- GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$18,700
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,362
- ALLODERM$733
- TheraGenesis Wound Matrix$577
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$400
- Phasix Mesh$397
- PHASIX$380
- Irrisept$325
- INTEGRA$282
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$252
- SOMAVAC 100 Sustained Vacuum System$209
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$202
- OviTex 2S$191
- BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$170
- Restrata Wound Matrix$170
- OMNIGRAFT$141
How this compares
$167,002 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Other plastic surgery in Durham
- Suhail MithaniDurham$146K
- Duncan HughesDurham$68K
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.