Keith Sharpton, MD
Surgery · Lenoir, NCNPI 1053604546
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 26 payments — averaging $27.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$209
- Exact Sciences$105
- Medtronic$72
- Molli Surgical (US) Inc$57
- AbbVie$52
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$48
- plus $173 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$715100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 10 | $209 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $105 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $72 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 1 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $52 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $36 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $20 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $15 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $11 |
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
$715 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocortisone | 11 | $30 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lenoir
- Jacob SchroderDurham$2.6M
- Samuel RossCharlotte$2.6M
- Jacob GreenbergDurham$1.3M
- Brant HenifordCharlotte$963K
- Vedra AugensteinCharlotte$789K
- William HopeWilmington$761K
- John MartinieCharlotte$712K
- Dana PortenierDurham$702K
- Dimitrios StefanidisCharlotte$697K
- Paul EnochsCary$689K
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.