Doctors in Charleston, SC
4,673 clinicians with a payment, billing or prescribing record on file, and $204,922,225 in reported general payments across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Clinicians
- 4,673
- Total reported
- $204.9M
- Average per clinician
- $43,852
- Specialties listed
- 12
Drug and device companies bought food or drink for clinicians in Charleston 166,652 times, worth $5,557,355 — an average of $33 each. Nationally, food and beverage is nine in ten reported payments and under a tenth of the money; this is what that looks like in one town.
Highest reported payments in Charleston
A high position here usually reflects a consulting, speaking or royalty arrangement rather than anything untoward — see how to read these figures before drawing conclusions.
- 1Gary HeaddenEmergency Medicine$9,906,245
- 2Robert CliffordPediatrics$9,606,282
- 3John KaczmarMedical Oncology$7,747,285
- 4Lara Wine LeePediatric Dermatology$7,732,022
- 5Todd SchlesingerDermatology$6,409,172
- 6Jacobo MintzerPsychiatry$4,920,123
- 7Patrick FlumePulmonary Disease$4,647,203
- 8Daniel AlfaroOphthalmology$4,605,505
- 9Uwe SchoepfDiagnostic Radiology$4,372,036
- 10Andrew AtzPediatric Cardiology$4,004,594
- 11Edward NewtonFamily Medicine$2,953,574
- 12Robert StuartHematology & Oncology$2,948,725
- 13Rahul ArgulaCritical Care Medicine$2,862,542
- 14Frank CuocoClinical Cardiac Electrophysiology$2,824,805
- 15Stephen StriplingPediatrics$2,687,910
- 16Theodore GourdinMedical Oncology$2,600,398
- 17Don RockeyHepatology$2,494,899
- 18Sandip PrasadUrology$2,439,292
- 19Andrew KeeganNeurology$2,203,710
- 20Jeffrey WinterfieldClinical Cardiac Electrophysiology$2,185,652
- 21Stephen SavageUrology$2,098,415
- 22Michael LeonardiPediatrics$2,039,948
- 23Erin ForsterGastroenterology$1,976,491
- 24Richard FriedmanAdult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery$1,968,011
- 25Praneeth BaratamHematology$1,911,922
- 26Donald HurleyFamily Medicine$1,900,496
- 27Eric MeissnerInfectious Disease$1,626,371
- 28Richard SilverRheumatology$1,625,113
- 29Alejandro SpiottaNeurological Surgery$1,600,479
- 30Vanessa HinsonNeurology$1,493,214
- 31Thomas MurphyAllergy & Immunology$1,443,126
- 32Barry SigalPulmonary Disease$1,396,748
- 33Michelle HudspethPediatric Hematology-Oncology$1,385,720
- 34Edward TavelPain Medicine$1,384,840
- 35Charlton StrangeCritical Care Medicine$1,360,942
- 36Brian HessHematology$1,294,498
- 37Shaun NguyenOtolaryngology$1,280,114
- 38Daniel SilvermanAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology$1,213,548
- 39Eric JablonOphthalmology$1,213,518
- 40Marc KatzThoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)$1,209,384
- 41Gerard SilvestriPulmonary Disease$1,156,395
- 42Gene SaylorsMedical Oncology$1,125,854
- 43Daniel SteinbergInterventional Cardiology$1,100,907
- 44Sheldon LitwinAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology$1,086,690
- 45Katherine RuzhanskyNeurology$1,086,158
- 46Brian LingerfeltHematology & Oncology$1,071,412
- 47Marcelo GuimaraesVascular & Interventional Radiology$1,061,309
- 48James OrcuttHematology & Oncology$1,057,231
- 49Nicholas MilanoNeurology$1,054,251
- 50Rachana KrishnaPulmonary Disease$1,030,748
- 51Beatrice HullEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism$986,862
- 52John KerrisonOphthalmology$975,450
- 53John McKinnonInfectious Disease$933,758
- 54Hugh DurrenceFamily Medicine$933,569
- 55George GeilsHematology & Oncology$930,183
- 56John WrangleHematology & Oncology$918,527
- 57Jonathan HalfordNeurology$905,506
- 58Brent PonceOrthopaedic Surgery$892,055
- 59John HugginsPulmonary Disease$885,342
- 60Timothy WhelanPulmonary Disease$884,539