Has Chad Thurman, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $53,803 in general payments to Chad Thurman, DO across 94 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Chad Thurman, DO did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Chad Thurman, DO come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Chad Thurman, DO

Orthopaedic Surgery · Florence, SCNPI 1396185039

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $44,956 of the $53,803 with a category attached, or 83.6%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 87.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $22,062 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $1,481 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery 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.

$53,803in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $572.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$47K
Applied Medical Resources Corporation$3K
Smith+Nephew$1K
Johnson & Johnson$989
Stryker$587
Episurf Medical, Inc.$291
plus $483 from 9 others

$11,800in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $11,800 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.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$12K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$44,95684%
Travel & lodging$5,47710%
Food & beverage$3,3706%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	38	$46,870
Applied Medical Resources Corporation	6	$3,331
Smith+Nephew	10	$1,251
Johnson & Johnson	9	$989
Stryker	11	$587
Episurf Medical, Inc.	2	$291
Zimmer Biomet	2	$161
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$137
Peerless Surgical Inc.	2	$55
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$31
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$25
Convatec Inc.	2	$24
ERMI LLC	1	$24
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$15
Wound Management Technologies, Inc	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

$53,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$422,656

Medicare patients

622

Services billed

4,507

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
Piroxicam	21	$11,965
Calcipotriene	21	$6,675
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	128	$1,224
Cefadroxil	207	$1,158
Tranexamic Acid	88	$1,066
Diclofenac Sodium	42	$470
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	41	$412
Meloxicam	64	$186
Ibuprofen	18	$181
Naproxen	13	$131
Celecoxib	17	$120
Tramadol Hcl	29	$101
Methylprednisolone	14	$98
Prednisone	39	$52
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	13	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Florence

William SmithColumbia$7.7M
Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
Brent PonceCharleston$874K
Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$286K
Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
James LogingClinton$118K
Justin SmithRock Hill$102K
Matthew DuffinRock Hill$98K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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.

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