Briana McLaughlin
Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1538651153
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 92 payments — averaging $139.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Axogen$3K
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$2K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$526
- Kerecis Limited$505
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$462
- plus $4K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,52943%
- Food & beverage$6,83053%
- Education$4423%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 16 | $3,182 |
| Axogen | 8 | $2,910 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 11 | $1,568 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $526 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $505 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $462 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $457 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 4 | $456 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $419 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $292 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 5 | $289 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $268 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $227 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $184 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $170 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $157 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $133 |
| Biocircuit Technologies Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $74 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$2,791
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$2,791
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$2,791
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$2,791
- AxoGuard Nerve Cap$2,791
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$2,315
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,315
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,589
- Geminus$1,267
- Align$1,267
- IJS$1,267
- Implate$1,267
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$793
- Phasix Mesh$419
- INTEGRA$320
- ALLODERM$286
- CellerateRx$262
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$255
- Matriderm$184
- PlasmaBlade$184
How this compares
$12,801 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 23 | $394 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $275 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 16 | $94 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $61 |
| Cefadroxil | 14 | $58 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $44 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Charleston
- Steven KahnCharleston$433K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John McGillicuddyCharleston$96K
- Nicolas PopeCharleston$71K
- Lucas WiterCharleston$44K
- Katherine MorganCharleston$29K
- Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
- Virgilio GeorgeCharleston$19K
- Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
- Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.