Has Don Stovall, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,996 in general payments to Don Stovall, MD across 32 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 Don Stovall, 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 Don Stovall, 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.

Don Stovall, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · North Charleston, SCNPI 1003844523

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 32 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Globus Medical accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $901 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $87 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $31,467.

$1,996in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $62.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$1K
UCB, Inc.$149
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$130
Si-bone, Inc.$95
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.$71
Amgen$70
plus $97 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,996100%

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
Globus Medical	15	$1,385
UCB, Inc.	1	$149
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	2	$130
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$95
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$71
Amgen	5	$70
Abbott	4	$61
Medtronic	3	$36

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

$1,996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 32 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$240,501

Medicare patients

416

Services billed

7,152

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	183	$2,006
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	145	$1,879
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$102
Prednisone	41	$76
Celecoxib	12	$76
Tramadol Hcl	20	$67
Meloxicam	22	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in North Charleston

Steven PolettiMt Pleasant$3M
Donald JohnsonMt Pleasant$2.9M
Gene MasseyMyrtle Beach$1.2M
Rakesh ChokshiFlorence$727K
Willie EdwardsFlorence$687K
Ivan LamottaColumbia$299K
Daniel ReidConway$152K
Timothy BryanMt Pleasant$135K
James AymondCharleston$91K
Michael PeelleColumbia$77K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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