Has Luther Baker, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $40,407 in general payments to Luther Baker, MD across 28 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Luther Baker, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Luther Baker, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Luther Baker, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Colquitt, GANPI 1114062106

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $38,874 of the $40,407 with a category attached, or 96.2%. Mentor Worldwide LLC accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $38,928 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $53 in 2025. Among plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in GA 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.

$40,407in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $1443.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mentor Worldwide LLC$39K
AbbVie$1K
Smith+Nephew$79
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$37
Ossur Americas, Inc.$36
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$29
plus $82 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3611%
Gifts$1,1713%
Other$38,87496%

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	2	$38,889
AbbVie	10	$1,255
Smith+Nephew	6	$79
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$37
Ossur Americas, Inc.	2	$36
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	1	$29
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$28
Convatec Inc.	1	$19
Solventum Corporation	1	$18
Urgo Medical North America, LLC	1	$17

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.

NATRELLE$1,027
BOTOX COSMETIC$144

How this compares

$40,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 83 plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$383,403

Medicare patients

133

Services billed

3,819

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
Mupirocin	152	$2,341
Triamcinolone Acetonide	40	$312
Nystatin-TriamcinoloneNystatin/Triamcinolone Acet	11	$256

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other plastic and reconstructive surgery in Colquitt

Rajiv SoodAugusta$502K
Carmen KavaliAtlanta$233K
Randal RuddermanAlpharetta$207K
James NamnoumAtlanta$97K
Michael MirzabeigiAtlanta$71K
Katherine SantosaAtlanta$65K
Marc YuneRoswell$64K
Asaf YalifAlpharetta$43K
Olumayowa AbiodunAlbany$35K
Seth YellinMarietta$32K

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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.

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