Caroline Ford
Family · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1043619414
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 613 payments — averaging $24.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
- GSK$2K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Insmed, Inc.$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Sanofi$664
- plus $5K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,05814%
- Food & beverage$12,51485%
- Education$2372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 21 | $2,475 |
| GSK | 133 | $2,277 |
| AstraZeneca | 89 | $1,897 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 40 | $1,135 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 42 | $1,018 |
| Sanofi | 29 | $664 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 25 | $620 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 33 | $568 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 16 | $454 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 15 | $322 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 15 | $301 |
| Merck | 17 | $292 |
| Amgen | 14 | $287 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 17 | $283 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 13 | $255 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $251 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $238 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $223 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 10 | $192 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $186 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $132 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $130 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 6 | $128 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Novartis | 4 | $84 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Resmed Corp | 2 | $57 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $36 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $20 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $13 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$14,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,248 family 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 675 | $603,679 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 53 | $239,673 |
| XywavSodium,calcium,mag,pot Oxybate | 13 | $213,096 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 153 | $123,637 |
| Pirfenidone | 13 | $105,867 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 77 | $51,687 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 63 | $49,594 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 46 | $42,763 |
| Bevespi AerosphereGlycopyrrolate/Formoterol Fum | 72 | $35,360 |
| EliquisApixaban | 40 | $26,391 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 77 | $22,014 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 109 | $16,787 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 495 | $13,880 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 18 | $13,643 |
| Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 51 | $13,089 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $2,277 | $718,910845 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Bevespi Aerosphere, Symbicort | $1,897 | $181,011302 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimSpiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat | $1,018 | $65,39577 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $20 | $26,39140 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 95th percentile of 3,248 family providers in South Carolina.
Other family in Murrells Inlet
- Jennifer RozakMurrells Inlet$16K
- Alison FogartyGreenville$2M
- Sara ChristieGreenville$229K
- Kara Cooper GilmerAnderson$127K
- Jessica BellEasley$96K
- Carrie HendersonGreenville$91K
- Sarah ValerioGreer$76K
- Mary WilliamsColumbia$67K
- Michelle StrongGreenville$55K
- Karen McKerihanSummerville$54K
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.