Darren West, MD
Emergency Medicine · Greenville, SCNPI 1295745073
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Novartis accounts for 81.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,649, more than ten times the $350 reported in 2019. Among emergency medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 37 payments — averaging $138.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$4K
- Journey Medical Corporation$262
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$136
- LEO Pharma Inc.$95
- AbbVie$94
- Pfizer$80
- plus $275 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,72353%
- Travel & lodging$88917%
- Food & beverage$1,51129%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 12 | $4,181 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 3 | $262 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $136 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $94 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $80 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 4 | $70 |
| Amgen | 1 | $53 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Hill Dermaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
$5,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,024 emergency medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cefdinir | 41 | $507 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $59 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $46 |
| Ibuprofen | 20 | $44 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $39 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $36 |
| Prednisone | 20 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other emergency medicine in Greenville
- Phillip MoschellaGreenville$298K
- Sarah FabianoGreenville$78K
- Brian BrownGreenville$6K
- Katherine BirchenoughGreenville$5K
- Patrick MaloneyGreenville$2K
- Aaron CollinsGreenville$1K
- Kevin DocykGreenville$1K
- Alan ClardyGreenville$951
- Richard MillsGreenville$542
- Christopher MichaelisMount Pleasant$399K
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.