Has Courtney Poston, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,861 in general payments to Courtney Poston, MD across 24 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 Courtney Poston, MD 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 Courtney Poston, MD 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.

Courtney Poston, MD

Gynecology · Charleston, SCNPI 1144888264

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.2%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 37.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,397, more than ten times the $18 reported in 2019.

$2,861in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $119.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$1K
Applied Medical Resources Corporation$936
Baxter Healthcare$343
Gynesonics, Inc.$134
Coloplast$132
Bayer$60
plus $197 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,15140%
Food & beverage$71025%
Education$1,00035%

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	3	$1,058
Applied Medical Resources Corporation	3	$936
Baxter Healthcare	2	$343
Gynesonics, Inc.	2	$134
Coloplast	2	$132
Bayer	2	$60
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	2	$55
Organon	2	$34
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$31
Millicent US Inc	1	$24
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	1	$21
Merck	1	$18
Pfizer	1	$13

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$1,000
FLOSEAL$343
TISSEEL$343
PerClot$343
SONATA SONOGRAPHY-GUIDED TRANSCERVICAL FIBROID ABLATION SYSTEM$117
ALTIS$107

How this compares

$2,861 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 39 gynecology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$5,222

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Ibuprofen	48	$492
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	39	$390
Oxycodone Hcl	42	$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gynecology in Charleston

Jack SimmonsCharleston$34
David McCarusCharleston$25
Andrea PezzellaWest Columbia$99K
Albert OdomColumbia$26K
Caroline FeltySimpsonville$7K
Adrienne EllisSimpsonville$6K
Claude TolbertBluffton$3K
Elaine EustisMt. Pleasant$3K
Rhonda LeachMount Pleasant$2K
Cindy BessonAiken$2K

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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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