Charles Tucker, MD
Retina Specialist · Rock Hill, SCNPI 1033189501
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,964 of the $2,421 with a category attached, or 81.1%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Genentech USA, Inc. at 35.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $936 and has fallen 88.2% since, to $110 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for retina specialist clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,421.
Across 85 payments — averaging $28.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech USA, Inc.$852
- AbbVie$465
- Notal Vision, Inc.$457
- Coherus Oncology, Inc.$176
- Biogen$115
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$92
- plus $263 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$45719%
- Food & beverage$1,96481%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 31 | $852 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $465 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 4 | $457 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $176 |
| Biogen | 5 | $115 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $61 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Novartis | 2 | $41 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 20 retina specialist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bromfenac Sodium | 65 | $9,801 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 140 | $4,785 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 12 | $4,360 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 22 | $4,341 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 102 | $1,719 |
| Latanoprost | 101 | $1,258 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 88 | $930 |
| Fluorometholone | 12 | $840 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 26 | $819 |
| Timolol Maleate | 52 | $352 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCombigan | $465 | $4,36012 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 50th percentile of 20 retina specialist providers in South Carolina.
Other retina specialist in Rock Hill
- Arman FarrRock Hill$5K
- Nasrollah SamiyRock Hill$2K
- Hao TangCharleston$66K
- Carl BakerHilton Head Island$37K
- Adam PflugrathGreenville$13K
- Jeffrey GrossColumbia$7K
- Stephen HypesWest Columbia$5K
- James HallGreenville$4K
- Robert PrinziLittle River$4K
- Jeffrey BliceCharleston$3K
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.