Anthony Pruitt
Pediatrics · Blythewood, SCNPI 1700884848
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $32,625 of the $41,726 with a category attached, or 78.2%. Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 91.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $32,599, 5.7 times the $5,691 reported in 2019. Among pediatrics clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 197 payments — averaging $211.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$38K
- Merck$2K
- Pfizer$395
- Corium, LLC$344
- Tris Pharma Inc$243
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$169
- plus $688 from 14 others
Across 642 payments — averaging $7295.73 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Merck$1.4M
- GSK$947K
- Pfizer$797K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$759K
- Novavax Inc$566K
- AstraZeneca$104K
- plus $64K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$32,62578%
- Travel & lodging$5,28713%
- Food & beverage$3,8149%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 63 | $37,989 |
| Merck | 18 | $1,897 |
| Pfizer | 38 | $395 |
| Corium, LLC | 15 | $344 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 12 | $243 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 9 | $169 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $159 |
| Sobi, Inc | 7 | $131 |
| GSK | 6 | $86 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $66 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 2 | $27 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Organon | 1 | $7 |
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
$41,726 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 969 pediatrics providers in South Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Blythewood
- William JarvisHilton Head Island$78K
- Stephen StriplingCharleston$31K
- Erin TomlinShaw Afb$12K
- Cara O NeillColumbia$12K
- Robert CliffordCharleston$8K
- Jonathan MasonGeorgetown$7K
- John CarrollColumbia$7K
- Laura AlbergColumbia$6K
- James McElligottCharleston$6K
- Richard ShroudsColumbia$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.