Alex Drohan
Internal Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1437732393
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 100 payments — averaging $54.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$737
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$697
- UCB, Inc.$613
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$610
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$378
- Johnson & Johnson$369
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1252%
- Food & beverage$5,03092%
- Education$3106%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 9 | $737 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 11 | $697 |
| UCB, Inc. | 8 | $613 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 8 | $610 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 10 | $378 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $369 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $325 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $315 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 2 | $249 |
| Novartis | 7 | $240 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $204 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $189 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $142 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $111 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $104 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Amgen | 2 | $49 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Organon | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$5,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab | 18 | $259,938 |
| Acitretin | 13 | $4,133 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 22 | $1,253 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 52 | $830 |
| Metronidazole | 15 | $753 |
| Fluorouracil | 11 | $669 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 14 | $517 |
| Ketoconazole | 30 | $479 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 19 | $373 |
| Mometasone Furoate | 11 | $221 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 11 | $218 |
| Minoxidil | 13 | $154 |
| Hydrocortisone | 11 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Charleston
- Jan BasileCharleston$278K
- James ThomasCharleston$154K
- John CleekCharleston$136K
- Shakaib RehmanCharleston$94K
- Leonard AlsfeldCharleston$91K
- Samuel Schumann IiiCharleston$48K
- Brett TomashitisCharleston$36K
- Scott SandsCharleston$25K
- Laura KinneyCharleston$20K
- Andrew SchreinerCharleston$15K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.