Charles Roberts, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · North Charleston, SCNPI 1659307718
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.5% of the total across 210 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 36 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 24.1% of the total.
Across 210 payments — averaging $63.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- Artivion, Inc.$900
- Medtronic$897
- Bolton Medical Inc$890
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$691
- plus $4K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7346%
- Food & beverage$12,57294%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $3,213 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 22 | $2,246 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 8 | $900 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $897 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 12 | $890 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 25 | $691 |
| Pylant Medical | 6 | $588 |
| Abbott | 8 | $557 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $544 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 13 | $454 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 15 | $310 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 5 | $264 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $255 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $229 |
| Abiomed | 5 | $188 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 8 | $114 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $107 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $73 |
| Amgen | 2 | $61 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $49 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $32 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$810
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$623
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$449
- Avalus$369
- CAMZYOS$352
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$307
- EXCLUDER Iliac Branch Endoprosthesis$293
- Grafts$278
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$192
- C3 Delivery System$185
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$177
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$177
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$175
- ONYX FRONTIER$174
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$167
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$161
- KONECT RESILIA$147
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$147
- STRATAFIX$143
- VISTASEAL$143
How this compares
$13,306 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $187 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 23 | $178 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in North Charleston
- James BennerNorth Charleston$11K
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Gautam BhatiaGreenville$31K
- Sanford ZeiglerCharleston$30K
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.