Margaret Luthringer, MD
Plastic Surgery · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1700232014
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $8,333 of the $10,404 with a category attached, or 80.1%. Acumed LLC accounts for 83.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,429 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $112 in 2025. Among plastic surgery clinicians in SC 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 20 payments — averaging $520.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$9K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$882
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$285
- Linvatec Corporation$174
- Trimed, Inc.$139
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$123
- plus $158 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$8,33380%
- Travel & lodging$5655%
- Food & beverage$1,50614%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 7 | $8,644 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 6 | $882 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $285 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $174 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Axogen | 1 | $112 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $46 |
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.
- INTEGRA$394
- BioBrace 23mm$174
- ACUMED$168
- INnate Implant$168
- TENOGLIDE$154
- Tools - WFS$139
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$131
- XIAFLEX$123
How this compares
$10,404 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 65 plastic surgery providers in South 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 28 | $134 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Spartanburg
- Ashley KerekesSpartanburg$3K
- John LettieriSpartanburg$950
- Hannah EnglandSpartanburg$517
- Thomas RobertsSpartanburg$90
- Richard WassermannColumbia$77K
- Kayla HumenanskyColumbia$26K
- Gregory SextonColumbia$21K
- Jason UlmCharleston$16K
- Isis Raulino ScomacaoCharleston$15K
- Rodney YoungNorth Charleston$11K
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.