Brett Tomashitis
Internal Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1073042883
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (37.3%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 42.4% of the total. Among internal medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 209 payments — averaging $171.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$15K
- Abbott$11K
- Boston Scientific$4K
- Biotronik Inc.$4K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$694
- plus $798 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9003%
- Grants$7,98322%
- Travel & lodging$13,39537%
- Food & beverage$12,88036%
- Education$7282%
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 | 57 | $15,206 |
| Abbott | 75 | $10,620 |
| Boston Scientific | 28 | $3,740 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 9 | $3,708 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 18 | $1,121 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 12 | $694 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 3 | $288 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $251 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| EBR Systems, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $20 |
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.
- AVEIR$2,856
- ENSITE$2,442
- Micra$2,083
- ENSITE PRECISION$1,674
- GALLANT$720
- Carto 3$678
- ACCOLADE SR$577
- Plexa ProMRI$437
- Acticor 7 VR-T DX$437
- AMPLATZER AMULET$347
- Cardiva VASCADE MVP VVCS 6-12F$272
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$253
- OPTIMIZER$239
- JOT DX$184
- VersaCross Access Solution$156
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$148
- TACTICATH ABLATION CATHETER, SENSOR ENABLED$144
- Solia$138
- BioMonitor$138
- Edora$138
How this compares
$35,886 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Charleston
- Jan BasileCharleston$278K
- John CleekCharleston$136K
- Leonard AlsfeldCharleston$91K
- Scott SandsCharleston$25K
- Laura KinneyCharleston$20K
- Andrew SchreinerCharleston$15K
- Hardik PatelCharleston$15K
- Mithunan MaheswaranathanCharleston$14K
- Frances HughesCharleston$11K
- Molly McVeyCharleston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.