Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Charles Kays

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Wilmington, NC Medical Doctor

NPI 1689676611 CMS profile 122354

2305 Canterwood Dr, Wilmington, NC 28401

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General payments

$68,589

136 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Charles Kays of Wilmington, NC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $68,589 across 136 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,149 12
2024 General $3,361 18
2023 General $6,552 39
2022 General $813 19
2021 General $178 10
2020 General $14,792 19
2019 General $41,744 19

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Charles Kays
  • Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery median
  • Middle half of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Charles Kays were reported at $1,149. Among 2,070 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $442 and the middle half received between $150 and $1,242.

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Year Charles Kays Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $41,744 $335 $121–$1,264 $163
2020 $14,792 $162 $57–$417 $114
2021 $178 $245 $89–$735 $132
2022 $813 $325 $120–$932 $149
2023 $6,552 $343 $129–$999 $160
2024 $3,361 $390 $141–$1,085 $164
2025 $1,149 $442 $150–$1,242 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Stryker Corporation $56,315 25 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $8,980 46 payments
  3. TELA Bio, Inc. $1,849 20 payments
  4. Allergan Inc. $1,052 38 payments
  5. RTI Surgical, Inc $234 3 payments
  6. Integra LifeSciences Corporation $104 1 payment
  7. Mentor Worldwide LLC $20 1 payment
  8. Sientra, Inc. $18 1 payment
  9. Merz North America, Inc. $17 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $51,000 8 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $8,374 30 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $5,081 9 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $4,125 88 payments
  5. Education $8 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. SPY TECHNOLOGY $35,038 18 payments
  2. 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA $19,067 4 payments
  3. DERMACELL $16,637 3 payments
  4. 1688 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA $13,500 1 payment
  5. 1288 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA $4,500 2 payments
  6. 1188 HD AUTOCLAVABLE CAMERA $4,500 2 payments
  7. OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex) $1,687 18 payments
  8. NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS Plastics $677 16 payments
  9. NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS Plastic Surgery $466 10 payments
  10. CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS $234 3 payments
  11. Other $709 25 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 6 drugs

Part D claims

110

Median for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: 61

Drug cost

$807

Median for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: $369

Branded share of claims

13.6%

Median for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: 30%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Cephalexin Generic 34 $412
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 15 $144
Clindamycin Hcl Generic 14 $77
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 14 $76
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 12 $49
Promethazine Hcl Generic 21 $49

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 2,638 Part D prescribers listed as Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$27,321

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

43

Average age 74

Services billed

120

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
Cancer 72%
Arthritis 63%
High blood pressure 58%
Osteoporosis 33%
Diabetes 30%
Depression 26%
Alzheimer's or dementia 0%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

1 product · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
BOTOX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $5
$5 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

136 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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