Joseph Hunstad
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Charlotte, NCNPI 1255545026
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $137,769 of the $143,505 with a category attached, or 96.0%. Mentor Worldwide LLC accounts for 96.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 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 138 payments — averaging $1039.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$138K
- AbbVie$4K
- Davol Inc.$541
- Sientra, Inc.$501
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$214
- Tepha Inc$132
- plus $431 from 7 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $2995.00 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.
- Tepha Inc$10K
- AbbVie$8K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$137,76996%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,8451%
- Food & beverage$3,8913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 30 | $137,917 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 72 | $3,770 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $541 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 9 | $501 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $214 |
| Tepha Inc | 5 | $132 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 6 | $108 |
| Acelrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $44 |
| Apyx Medical Corporation | 4 | $30 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 2 | $28 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$143,505 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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Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Charlotte
- David MatthewsCharlotte$19K
- Robert GraperCharlotte$13K
- James ShearerCharlotte$953
- Jeffrey DitesheimCharlotte$465
- Jeffrey MarcusDurham$3.3M
- Anuja AntonyCary$326K
- Peter ArnoldGreensboro$206K
- Charles HultmanRaleigh$70K
- Charles KaysWilmington$69K
- Brian CoanCary$41K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.