Has Edward Behrens, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $862 in general payments to Edward Behrens, MD across 21 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 Edward Behrens, 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 Edward Behrens, 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.

Edward Behrens, MD

Otolaryngology · Charleston, SCNPI 1669479986

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 21 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 25.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $351, 3.4 times the $102 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for otolaryngology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $1,243.

$862in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $41.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$221
Medtronic$180
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$77
Sanofi$64
Optinose US, Inc.$58
Aerin Medical Inc.$51
plus $210 from 8 others

$32,760in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $4680.00 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

The North Carolina Mutual Wholesale Drug Company Inc$33K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$862100%

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
Stryker	2	$221
Medtronic	1	$180
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$77
Sanofi	2	$64
Optinose US, Inc.	3	$58
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$51
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$42
GSK	2	$40
AbbVie	1	$29
Neurent Medical Limited	1	$24
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$22
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	1	$20
Pharming Healthcare, Inc.	1	$20
Novartis	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.

StealthStation$180
SCOPIS ENT$176

How this compares

$862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 180 otolaryngology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$148,310

Medicare patients

558

Services billed

2,923

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
Ipratropium Bromide	100	$3,049
Azelastine Hcl	43	$1,223
Fluticasone Propionate	37	$989
Mometasone Furoate	11	$902
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	18	$786
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	20	$192
Famotidine	12	$172
Omeprazole	18	$125
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	17	$122
Pilocarpine Hcl	12	$105
Prednisone	33	$81
Amoxicillin	12	$41

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Charleston

Shaun NguyenCharleston$973K
Rodney SchlosserCharleston$382K
Zachary SolerCharleston$67K
Eugene BrownCharleston$28K
Jason NewmanCharleston$26K
Joshua HornigCharleston$25K
Ashli OrourkeCharleston$21K
Alexandra KejnerCharleston$19K
Evan GraboyesCharleston$18K
Mohamed AbdelwahabCharleston$15K

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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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