Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in North Carolina
55 providers, $4,396,057 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,773.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in North Carolina
Across 23 plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,376,501 in total — an average of $59,848 each, of which $59,848 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Jeffrey MarcusDurham$3,327,330
- 2Anuja AntonyCary$326,062
- 3Peter ArnoldGreensboro$206,215
- 4Joseph HunstadCharlotte$143,505
- 5Charles HultmanRaleigh$70,497
- 6Charles KaysWilmington$68,589
- 7Brian CoanCary$41,166
- 8Benjamin WoodRaleigh$23,430
- 9Mark MorganWilmington$23,425
- 10Michael ZennRaleigh$21,403
- 11David MatthewsCharlotte$18,994
- 12Robert GraperCharlotte$13,321
- 13Rebecca KnackstedtDurham$9,961
- 14Kenneth WhiteWilmington$9,075
- 15Lauren HutchinsonShelby$7,805
- 16Sanjay DaluvoyRaleigh$7,124
- 17Jeffrey ChurchWilmington$5,767
- 18Brett BakerHuntersville$5,639
- 19Cynthia GreggCary$5,544
- 20Leslie BranchWinston Salem$5,346
- 21Kristen RezakRaleigh$5,292
- 22Donald BrowneRaleigh$4,740
- 23Tor LjungWilmington$3,464
- 24Juan OrtizRaleigh$3,405
- 25Heather LevitesRaleigh$3,230
- 26Lynn DamitzChapel Hill$2,911
- 27Rhett HighRaleigh$2,892
- 28Gregory GeorgiadeDurham$2,773
- 29Richard CarlinoRaleigh$2,536
- 30David NicholsDurham$2,338
- 31Eric EmersonGastonia$2,309
- 32Jeyhan WoodChapel Hill$2,134
- 33Richard ZeriGreenville$1,901
- 34Whitney LaneDurham$1,605
- 35John ZannisNew Bern$1,509
- 36Ryan MarshallAsheville$1,326
- 37Virgil WillardHigh Point$1,139
- 38Shuting ZhongChapel Hill$1,136
- 39Kimberly JonesCary$1,121
- 40Anne ArgentaWinston Salem$1,072
- 41Stephen Elkins WilliamsChapel Hill$961
- 42James ShearerCharlotte$953
- 43Minh NguyenRaleigh$799
- 44Donald OschwaldRaleigh$703
- 45Bradford ScanlanFort Liberty$613
- 46Adam PurzyckiWinston Salem$595
- 47Damon AnagnosBoone$565
- 48Jeffrey DitesheimCharlotte$465
- 49Donald HannaCary$421
- 50Victoria YiDurham$392
- 51Susan DeanSouthport$355
- 52Walter CaulfieldGastonia$98
- 53Steven ZoellnerPinehurst$90
- 54William YoungArden$19
- 55W CochranSalisbury$0