Karen Lu
Plastic Surgery · Huntersville, NCNPI 1245893536
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,647 of the $8,806 with a category attached, or 86.8%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 97 payments — averaging $90.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$925
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$903
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$837
- Axogen$738
- plus $3K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2763%
- Food & beverage$7,64787%
- Education$7078%
- Other$1762%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 19 | $1,300 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $1,291 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 11 | $925 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 7 | $903 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 10 | $837 |
| Axogen | 8 | $738 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $700 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 5 | $581 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 3 | $290 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 5 | $280 |
| Acumed LLC | 2 | $268 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $126 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $109 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $37 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $27 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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.
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$998
- Restrata Wound Matrix$800
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$701
- INTEGRA$653
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$503
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$458
- MENTOR MemoryGel Breast Implant$350
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$348
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$335
- PRIMATRIX$323
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$323
- ALLODERM$277
- DuraSorb Monofilament Mesh$277
- Acu-Loc Wrist Plating System$268
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$214
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$214
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$214
- Checkpoint Stimulators$210
- AMNIOEXCEL$176
- Hand Plating System$146
How this compares
$8,806 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 128 plastic surgery providers in North Carolina.
Other plastic surgery in Huntersville
- Henry WilsonHuntersville$24K
- Peter CapizziHuntersville$22K
- Nicholas ClavinCharlotte$562K
- Luther HoltonWilmington$533K
- Theodore NyameCharlotte$364K
- Bill KortesisWinston Salem$321K
- Howard LevinsonDurham$167K
- Suhail MithaniDurham$146K
- Claire DillinghamGreensboro$142K
- Cynthia DiehlRaleigh$87K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.