Alvin Strasburger, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · West Columbia, SCNPI 1629466453
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,000 of the $6,789 with a category attached, or 88.4%. Sonio accounts for 88.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,177 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $91 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 47 payments — averaging $144.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sonio$6K
- AbbVie$312
- Pfizer$107
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$81
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$52
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$36
- plus $201 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,00088%
- Food & beverage$78912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sonio | 1 | $6,000 |
| AbbVie | 18 | $312 |
| Pfizer | 7 | $107 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $81 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Organon | 2 | $26 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$6,789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 15 | $674 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in West Columbia
- Brooke NaffzigerWest Columbia$70K
- Janice BaconWest Columbia$9K
- Christopher HutchinsonWest Columbia$7K
- Christopher JenningsAnderson$1.3M
- William ColemanGreenville$242K
- Melvin SeidMauldin$235K
- Judith BurgisColumbia$59K
- Charis ChambersGreenville$46K
- Angela ChoiCharleston$43K
- Andrew FuttermanCharleston$38K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.