Matthew Applebaum, MD
Plastic Surgery · Gastonia, NCNPI 1073044178
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Mentor Worldwide LLC accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,883, more than ten times the $83 reported in 2021.
Across 61 payments — averaging $86.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$4K
- AbbVie$559
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$160
- TELA Bio, Inc.$144
- Innovation Technologies Inc$129
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$110
- plus $498 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,51848%
- Food & beverage$2,74952%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 28 | $3,668 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $559 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $160 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $129 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $99 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $83 |
| Axogen | 2 | $51 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $36 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$5,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 128 plastic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 13 | $379 |
| Ketoconazole | 23 | $300 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 30 | $181 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 20 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Gastonia
- Charalampos SiotosGastonia$9K
- Parag ButalaGastonia$7K
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.