Barbara Sarb, DO
Pain Medicine · Florence, SCNPI 1285691485
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 27.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,998, 2.7 times the $1,128 reported in 2019.
Across 263 payments — averaging $41.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Stryker$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$1K
- Globus Medical$633
- plus $798 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,47941%
- Food & beverage$6,54659%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 110 | $2,976 |
| Nevro Corp. | 71 | $2,361 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,841 |
| Abbott | 14 | $1,390 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 9 | $1,027 |
| Globus Medical | 14 | $633 |
| Curonix LLC | 12 | $359 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 3 | $40 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $27 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $26 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$1,010
- IVS - VERTEBRAL AUGMENTATION PRODUCTS$828
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$820
- mild Device Kit$815
- Senza$753
- Omnia$428
- DURATA$125
How this compares
$11,026 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 92 pain 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 20 | $166 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Florence
- Michael WardenFlorence$20K
- Elizabeth SnoderlyFlorence$5K
- Gregory BrowningFlorence$5K
- Anna KellyFlorence$1K
- Phillip SmithGreenville$303K
- Richard KlineConway$104K
- Channing WilloughbyMurrells Inlet$82K
- Michael WarrickSumter$50K
- Daniel AtkinsonGreenville$36K
- Andrew MendelsonCharleston$19K
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.