RxDoctor Payments Data

Charles Burns, MD

Family Medicine · Anderson, SCNPI 1639755002

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,488in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 91 payments — averaging $16.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$288
  • AbbVie$219
  • AstraZeneca$218
  • Bayer$146
  • Lilly USA, LLC$91
  • Edwards Lifesciences$73
  • plus $453 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,488100%

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

24
25

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.

How this compares

$1,488 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$23,041
Medicare patients
109
Services billed
370

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
JardianceEmpagliflozin50$42,571
OzempicSemaglutide28$28,590
TrulicityDulaglutide14$17,269
EliquisApixaban15$14,014
RybelsusSemaglutide14$13,086
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$1,964
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate35$1,235
Nano 2nd Gen Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic12$1,031
Aripiprazole23$991
Fluticasone Propionate30$727
Levothyroxine Sodium71$644
Rosuvastatin Calcium52$616
Celecoxib11$590
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl45$589
Atorvastatin Calcium74$563

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$34$42,57150 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$288$41,67542 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$91$17,26914 claims
PfizerEliquis$45$14,01415 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 65th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.

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