Blake Leche, MD
Anesthesiology · Anderson, SCNPI 1770512972
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 487 payments — averaging $25.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$716
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$367
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$145
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$12,477100%
- Education$540%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 177 | $5,187 |
| Boston Scientific | 121 | $2,908 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 73 | $2,125 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 33 | $716 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 20 | $367 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $145 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $134 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 5 | $129 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $114 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 5 | $75 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $67 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $48 |
| USWM, LLC | 3 | $40 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $25 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Stryker | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
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$1,254
- INCEPTIV$627
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$489
- OCTRODE$261
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$241
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$189
- Penta SCS Leads$148
- ETERNA$138
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$121
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$118
- PRODIGY$112
- Nalocet$112
- Prolate$112
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$109
- Prodigy Family of SCS IPGs$107
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$105
How this compares
$12,531 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 609 anesthesiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 37 | $279 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $146 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 17 | $126 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $104 |
| Meloxicam | 11 | $14 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Anderson
- Eric LoudermilkAnderson$2.9M
- William HandGreenville$510K
- Frank OverdykCharleston$131K
- Frank HumblesConway$74K
- Joseph RodrigoCharleston$54K
- Jeffrey FrohockCharleston$48K
- David ArcellaCharleston$18K
- David HallGreenville$16K
- Metul ShahCharleston$11K
- Devin AntonovichWest Columbia$11K
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.