April Blue, MD
Family Medicine · Little River, SCNPI 1457350886
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 214 payments — averaging $18.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$499
- AbbVie$494
- Novo Nordisk$315
- AstraZeneca$260
- Abbott$249
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$230
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,885100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 4 | $499 |
| AbbVie | 53 | $494 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $315 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $260 |
| Abbott | 11 | $249 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 14 | $230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $225 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $208 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 7 | $172 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $169 |
| GSK | 8 | $123 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $107 |
| Amgen | 8 | $105 |
| Novartis | 6 | $96 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $91 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $59 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$3,897 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,153 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 91 | $134,140 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 63 | $71,620 |
| EliquisApixaban | 47 | $49,053 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 37 | $44,384 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 26 | $24,136 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 18 | $23,661 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 28 | $23,420 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 13 | $20,007 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 13 | $16,304 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 15 | $13,429 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $10,475 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 12 | $7,243 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 49 | $4,443 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 13 | $3,614 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 192 | $3,397 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $315 | $134,14091 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $59 | $95,28181 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $208 | $49,05347 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $20 | $44,38437 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere | $260 | $36,84943 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $225 | $24,13626 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $230 | $16,30413 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $494 | $11,68661 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $123 | $10,47511 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Little River
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Darron MolterLittle River$36K
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
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.