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Industry payments to physicians · South Carolina · 2024

South Carolina

In South Carolina, drug and device makers reported $34M in general payments to 17,027 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,974 each — plus $88M tied to research and $32M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$34M
general payments
17,027
covered recipients paid
$1,974
mean per physician

Top specialties in South Carolina

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Rheumatology $3M
Orthopaedic Surgery $2M
Dermatology $2M
Unspecified $1M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine $1M
Family $1M
Family Medicine $1M
Pulmonary Disease $1M
Physician Assistant $1M
Surgery $904,983
Ophthalmology $731,930
Internal Medicine $710,608

Highest-paid physicians in South Carolina

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Colin Edgerton Rheumatology · Summerville · top payer: American Rheumatology Network, LLC $2M
William Smith Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbia · top payer: Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. $2M
Heather Hopkins Unspecified · Lexington · top payer: Align Technology, Inc. $535,840
Marshall Shuler Dermatology · Greenville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $523,185
Vladimir Maletic Unspecified · Greer · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $517,411
Neal Shore Urology · Myrtle Beach · top payer: Janssen Research & Development, LLC $448,602
Clarence Legerton Rheumatology · Summerville · top payer: American Rheumatology Network, LLC $432,669
Gary Fink Rheumatology · Summerville · top payer: American Rheumatology Network, LLC $432,647
Todd Schlesinger Dermatology · Charleston · top payer: Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $411,716
Steven Poletti Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Mt Pleasant · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $352,668
Donald Johnson Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Mt Pleasant · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $341,973
Abhijit Raval Pulmonary Disease · Anderson · top payer: Genzyme Corporation $326,539
Amylynne Frankel Dermatology · Spartanburg · top payer: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $321,790
Gene Massey Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Myrtle Beach · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $305,826
Fabrizio Galimberti MOHS-Micrographic Surgery · Conway · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $250,405
Shaun Nguyen Otolaryngology · Charleston · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $243,253
Rebecca Smith Dermatology · Fort Mill · top payer: Amgen Inc. $241,247
Stephen Brunton Family Medicine · Winnsboro · top payer: Lilly USA, LLC $229,724
Andrzej Kalinski Unspecified · Rock Hill · top payer: CSL Plasma Inc. $220,135
Renee Lamm Addiction Psychiatry · Myrtle Beach · top payer: Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. $212,490
John Adams Orthopaedic Trauma · Greenville · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $211,325
William Edwards Rheumatology · Summerville · top payer: American Rheumatology Network, LLC $204,121
Jessica Coleman Nephrology · Beaufort · top payer: Travere Therapeutics, Inc. $193,613
Alan Brown Rheumatology · Greenville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $190,536
Erin Forster Gastroenterology · Charleston · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $164,451

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in South Carolina — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.