Daniel Ripley
Family Medicine · Beaufort, SCNPI 1700876893
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $22.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merz North America, Inc.$359
- Novo Nordisk$238
- Novartis$208
- Johnson & Johnson$162
- Merck$114
- AbbVie$74
- plus $501 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,657100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merz North America, Inc. | 7 | $359 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $238 |
| Novartis | 16 | $208 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $162 |
| Merck | 7 | $114 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $74 |
| Amgen | 4 | $59 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| CMS Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $36 |
| Bayer | 1 | $31 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| GSK | 2 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $14 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, 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
$1,657 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Beaufort
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Edward NewtonCharleston$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.