Steven Kahn
Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1932218500
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (48.4%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Avita Medical Americas, LLC at 40.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $68,830 and has fallen 61.6% since, to $26,424 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SC 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.
Across 180 payments — averaging $1093.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$79K
- Vericel Corporation$74K
- Medline Industries LP$23K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$11K
- Baxter Healthcare$4K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$3K
- plus $2K from 5 others
Across 30 payments — averaging $7869.05 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$118K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$102K
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$16K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$74,00838%
- Speaking & faculty fees$95,15048%
- Travel & lodging$19,90910%
- Food & beverage$7,6954%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 85 | $79,217 |
| Vericel Corporation | 43 | $74,430 |
| Medline Industries LP | 21 | $23,152 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 22 | $11,132 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $3,552 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $2,920 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $2,000 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 2 | $180 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $124 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- NexoBrid$72,138
- RECELL$56,503
- INTEGRA$13,224
- Dermatology and Wound Care$13,005
- Epicel$7,000
- OMNIGRAFT$5,600
- ARTISS$3,480
- STRATAGRAFT$2,920
- NEURAGEN$2,400
- optilight$2,000
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$1,847
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$1,702
- FLOWABLE$1,702
- IDRT$1,702
- PRIMATRIX$1,086
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,086
- PERMEADERM$583
- Cohealyx$583
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$145
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$145
How this compares
$196,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 553 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 surgery in Charleston
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- Nicolas PopeCharleston$59K
- Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
- Virgilio GeorgeCharleston$19K
- Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
- Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
- David McCabeCharleston$15K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
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.