Brystol Cagle, MD
Anesthesiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1356652036
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,749 of the $2,554 with a category attached, or 68.5%. Abbott accounts for 70.9% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,434 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $159 in 2025. Among anesthesiology 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 49 payments — averaging $52.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Edwards Lifesciences$206
- Hemosonics LLC$196
- Atricure, Inc.$55
- Merck$47
- Cook Medical LLC$29
- plus $211 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$80532%
- Food & beverage$1,74968%
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 | 20 | $1,812 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $206 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 2 | $196 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Merck | 3 | $47 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $29 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $23 |
| ICU Medical Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $21 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $16 |
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.
How this compares
$2,554 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.
Other anesthesiology in Charleston
- Frank OverdykCharleston$131K
- Joseph RodrigoCharleston$54K
- Jeffrey FrohockCharleston$48K
- David ArcellaCharleston$18K
- Metul ShahCharleston$11K
- Alexander GolovlevCharleston$10K
- Jeffery OllisCharleston$9K
- Rebecca DessoCharleston$5K
- Steven VranianCharleston$4K
- Toby SteinbergCharleston$3K
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.