Sarah Sher
Plastic Surgery · Asheville, NCNPI 1699090845
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.5%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $21,955 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $2,303 in 2025.
Across 126 payments — averaging $298.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$34K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$2K
- Motiva USA, LLC$1K
- Sientra, Inc.$307
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$118
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$95
- plus $189 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,90124%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,26657%
- Travel & lodging$2,4627%
- Food & beverage$4,89213%
- Gifts$870%
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) | 51 | $33,516 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 51 | $2,117 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 6 | $1,267 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 4 | $307 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $95 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $78 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $62 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $11 |
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.
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$27,123
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$21,345
- STRATTICE$3,294
- ALLODERM$1,751
- Motiva Implant Matrix$1,139
- MENTOR MemoryGel Resterilizable Gel Sizer$672
- SIENTRA HIGH STRENGTH COHESIVE SILICONE GEL BREAST IMPLANT$254
- MENTOR MemoryShape Breast Implant$230
- ARTOURA Breast Tissue Expander$135
- MENTOR CPX 2 Breast Tissue Expander$123
- CellerateRx$118
How this compares
$37,608 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 11 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Asheville
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- Eric HalvorsonAsheville$4K
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- 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.