Dion Franga, MD
Surgery · Orangeburg, SCNPI 1306938931
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 374 payments — averaging $75.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Senseonics, Incorporated$5K
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Philips North America LLC$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- plus $6K from 54 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,72017%
- Travel & lodging$1,3315%
- Food & beverage$12,18343%
- Education$10,01435%
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.
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$10,377
- Eversense$4,720
- AFX2 Bifurcated Endograft System$2,154
- Ovation iX Iliac Stent Graft$2,154
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,014
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$1,014
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$1,014
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$1,014
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$393
- XEOMIN$248
- (4067) Tack Endo Sys BTK$232
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$231
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$231
- ENDOCROSS Device$225
- Torus Stent Graft System$225
- Fusion Quattro$197
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$148
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$146
- Stellarex$134
- S.M.A.R.T. CONTROL$125
How this compares
$28,248 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 553 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 97 | $56,381 |
| EliquisApixaban | 27 | $16,401 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 272 | $2,339 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 143 | $1,049 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 234 | $798 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 80 | $584 |
| Gabapentin | 26 | $325 |
| Omeprazole | 15 | $315 |
| Famotidine | 21 | $281 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 13 | $190 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 15 | $58 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 12 | $33 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $473 | $56,38197 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $89 | $16,40127 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 90th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
Other surgery in Orangeburg
- Mauricio BassanteOrangeburg$19K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$892K
- Steven KahnCharleston$433K
- Hongjie YuanGreenville$431K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- Jeremy WarrenGreenville$193K
- Shanu KothariGreenville$191K
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.