Cary Brewton, DO
Surgery · Florence, SCNPI 1578792453
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (48.3%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 51.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,068 and has fallen 96.7% since, to $266 in 2025.
Across 66 payments — averaging $180.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$4K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$886
- TELA Bio, Inc.$142
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$108
- AbbVie$51
- plus $304 from 14 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $9304.74 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.
- Phraxis, Inc.$35K
- Venturemed Group, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00034%
- Travel & lodging$3633%
- Food & beverage$1,79215%
- Education$5,75448%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $6,128 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 18 | $4,289 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $886 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 10 | $142 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $51 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $34 |
| BD | 2 | $32 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $13 |
| Polynovo North America 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.
- DAVINCI XI$5,500
- ARTEGRAFT VASCULAR GRAFT$2,000
- ANASTOCLIP GC 8CM (MEDIUM)$2,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$576
How this compares
$11,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 553 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 16 | $1,029 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 232 | $923 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 45 | $566 |
| Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine | 11 | $152 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Florence
- Hatem AbdallahFlorence$47K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- Steven KahnCharleston$197K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- William CobbGreenville$159K
- Steven LauzonSumter$143K
- Shanu KothariGreenville$122K
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.