Carol Ketchen, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1578517470
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 181 payments — averaging $18.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$509
- AbbVie$430
- Pfizer$294
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$164
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$159
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$155
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,08294%
- Education$1906%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 23 | $509 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $430 |
| Pfizer | 21 | $294 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 8 | $164 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 8 | $159 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 9 | $155 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $142 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 5 | $118 |
| Amgen | 8 | $115 |
| Organon | 8 | $109 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 3 | $100 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Bayer | 5 | $69 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $50 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $50 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $33 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Mycovia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $31 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 2 | $24 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Gynesonics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $14 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$3,272 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Teriparatide | 13 | $26,242 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 23 | $13,847 |
| Estradiol | 250 | $9,613 |
| PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated | 18 | $7,700 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 49 | $2,756 |
| OsphenaOspemifene | 11 | $2,624 |
| Raloxifene Hcl | 16 | $1,702 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 19 | $1,490 |
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 17 | $1,292 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 17 | $731 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 42 | $693 |
| Fluconazole | 79 | $642 |
| Terconazole | 20 | $524 |
| Metronidazole | 27 | $431 |
| Paroxetine Hcl | 26 | $424 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $509 | $13,84723 claims |
| PfizerPremarin | $294 | $7,70018 claims |
| Duchesnay USA IncorporatedOsphena | $24 | $2,62411 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Spartanburg
- Bang GiepSpartanburg$95K
- Christopher JenningsAnderson$1.3M
- George HelmrichGreenville$1.2M
- Meghan HillColumbia$795K
- Patricia ThompsonBeaufort$649K
- Ronnie GivensSummerville$640K
- Helena KirkpatrickMyrtle Beach$527K
- Heather SchwartzbergSummerville$320K
- David GodwinGreenville$261K
- William ColemanGreenville$242K
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.