Ram Kalus, MD
Plastic Surgery · Mount Pleasant, SCNPI 1922172980
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,770 of the $9,197 with a category attached, or 84.5%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 34.8% of the total.
Across 173 payments — averaging $53.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$2K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$731
- Stryker$503
- Tepha Inc$478
- Smith+Nephew$442
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,42716%
- Food & beverage$7,77084%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 60 | $3,203 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 50 | $1,738 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 7 | $731 |
| Stryker | 3 | $503 |
| Tepha Inc | 8 | $478 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $442 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $413 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $311 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 6 | $304 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 3 | $300 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $227 |
| Axogen | 2 | $179 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 4 | $92 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $71 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $13 |
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 SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$1,350
- INTEGRA$582
- NATRELLE$501
- NA$462
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$330
- CellerateRx$262
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$238
- GRAFIX PL$234
- Stravix$234
- PlasmaBlade$184
- OviTex 2S$170
- OMNIGRAFT$131
- SURGIMEND$131
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$109
- PRIMATRIX$107
- Restrata Wound Matrix$106
- GalaFLEX$100
How this compares
$9,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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.
Other plastic surgery in Mount Pleasant
- James CraigieMount Pleasant$5K
- Matthew BakerMount Pleasant$3K
- Richard KlineMount Pleasant$2K
- Richard WassermannColumbia$77K
- Kayla HumenanskyColumbia$26K
- Gregory SextonColumbia$21K
- Jason UlmCharleston$16K
- Isis Raulino ScomacaoCharleston$15K
- Rodney YoungNorth Charleston$11K
- Margaret LuthringerSpartanburg$10K
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.