Has Luther Holton received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $533,080 in general payments to Luther Holton across 294 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 Holton 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 Holton 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 Holton

Plastic Surgery · Wilmington, NCNPI 1861517625

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $339,913 of the $533,080 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by RTI Surgical, Inc at 35.9% of the total. 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.

$533,080in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 294 payments — averaging $1813.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

RTI Surgical, Inc$192K
KCI USA, Inc.$177K
Solventum Corporation$98K
Stryker$56K
AbbVie$5K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
plus $3K from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$339,91364%
Speaking & faculty fees$141,05326%
Travel & lodging$38,2847%
Food & beverage$4,9721%
Education$8,8582%

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
RTI Surgical, Inc	28	$191,516
KCI USA, Inc.	134	$176,556
Solventum Corporation	56	$97,931
Stryker	43	$56,093
AbbVie(2 entities)	7	$4,952
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	2	$3,500
Axogen	9	$1,802
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	6	$513
Mentor Worldwide LLC	6	$126
Baxter Healthcare	3	$92

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

$533,080 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 128 plastic surgery providers in North Carolina.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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