Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

JAMES Z APPEL

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Plastic Surgery

NPI
1912170119
CMS profile
86429
Location
CHARLOTTE, NC

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$8,812.73

  • Reported across 84 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$848.76

27 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $848.76 27

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
ABBVIE INC. $504.43 20
Mentor Worldwide LLC $148.33 3
Aziyo Biologics, Inc. $125.00 1
TELA Bio, Inc. $30.55 1
Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $21.19 1
Sandoz Inc. $19.26 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $536.08 9
PY2019 $6,691.42 18
PY2020 $28.82 2
PY2021 $53.86 3
PY2022 $153.25 4
PY2023 $500.54 21
PY2024 $848.76 27

Payment records · PY2024 (27)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $7.11 01/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233927 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $133.62 02/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233929 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $26.60 02/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233931 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $32.30 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233933 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $32.30 05/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233935 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $7.64 05/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233937 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $28.44 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233939 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $8.04 06/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233941 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $8.08 07/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233943 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $26.69 07/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233945 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $7.67 07/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233947 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $6.93 07/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233949 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $6.90 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233951 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $31.11 08/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233953 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $31.47 09/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233955 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $8.48 10/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233957 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $20.88 10/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233959 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $19.11 11/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233961 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $31.75 11/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233963 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $29.31 12/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1103233965 CMS
Elutia, Inc. $125.00 10/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130723925 CMS
Galderma Laboratories, L.P. $21.19 12/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145284221 CMS
Mentor Worldwide LLC $87.84 07/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077614354 CMS
Mentor Worldwide LLC $30.26 09/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077614306 CMS
Mentor Worldwide LLC $30.23 12/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077614362 CMS
Sandoz Inc. $19.26 01/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1089373195 CMS
TELA Bio, Inc. $30.55 04/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154223622 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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