Antoinette Rutherford, MD
Sleep Medicine · Columbia, SCNPI 1740316934
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $356 of the $446 with a category attached, or 79.8%. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $148, 2.5 times the $59 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for sleep medicine clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $1,570.
Across 18 payments — averaging $24.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$81
- Resmed Corp$59
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$45
- Philips North America LLC$43
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$42
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$39
- plus $136 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$35680%
- Education$9020%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $81 |
| Resmed Corp | 2 | $59 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Noctrix Health, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$446 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 25 sleep medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelsomraSuvorexant | 14 | $5,973 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 12 | $4,003 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 18 | $522 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 13 | $328 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 11 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sleep medicine in Columbia
- William HollinsColumbia$147K
- Rodney HarrisonColumbia$14K
- Terry GraingerColumbia$10K
- Dezmond SumterColumbia$505
- Luis de la CruzSpartanburg$20K
- Stephen HandAnderson$8K
- Fahd ZarroufAnderson$5K
- Robert PuchalskiLugoff$4K
- Rupa KoothirezhiSpartanburg$4K
- Jigme SethiCharlestib$4K
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.