Has Barney Sadler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $318 in general payments to Barney Sadler, MD across 15 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Barney Sadler, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Barney Sadler, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Barney Sadler, MD

Internal Medicine · Myrtle Beach, SCNPI 1689106445

Payments from drug & device makers

$318in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $21.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pfizer$85
Inari Medical, Inc.$69
AbbVie$45
Merck$34
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$28
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$22
plus $34 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$318100%

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
Pfizer	4	$85
Inari Medical, Inc.	3	$69
AbbVie	2	$45
Merck	2	$34
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$28
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$22
Abbott	1	$19
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15

How this compares

$318 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$88,548

Medicare patients

354

Services billed

809

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	69	$1,091
Sucralfate	26	$885
Cefpodoxime Proxetil	11	$483
Atorvastatin Calcium	35	$452
Metoprolol Succinate	38	$372
Gabapentin	19	$342
Nitroglycerin	13	$244
Levothyroxine Sodium	21	$244
Levofloxacin	67	$232
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	24	$187
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$171
Furosemide	37	$151
Amlodipine Besylate	34	$148
Carvedilol	19	$117
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	25	$110

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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