Carole Mercer
Adolescent Medicine · Simpsonville, SCNPI 1851550487
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim at 40.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,300, more than ten times the $170 reported in 2019. Among adolescent medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 75 payments — averaging $67.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
- Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2K
- Novo Nordisk$319
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$259
- Johnson & Johnson$150
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$88
- plus $657 from 21 others
Across 244 payments — averaging $4811.81 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$384K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$280K
- Merck$266K
- AbbVie$112K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$60K
- Modernatx, Inc.$43K
- plus $29K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,67553%
- Food & beverage$2,35947%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $2,061 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 11 | $1,500 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $319 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $259 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $150 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $62 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $55 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $37 |
| Abbott | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $20 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 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.
How this compares
$5,034 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 28 adolescent medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other adolescent medicine in Simpsonville
- Stefanie PutnamSimpsonville$703
- Michael GuytonGreenville$20K
- James HendersonColumbia$7K
- Brian FewTaylors$4K
- Kyle LibbeyN Charleston$3K
- Roy MagesTaylors$3K
- Karen PollockIrmo$1K
- Jonathan CollinsAiken$1K
- Edifel MacatunoSpartanburg$854
- Christine GrayWaterloo$674
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.