Edward Kotz, MD
Dermatology · Charleston, SCNPI 1063483428
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 226 payments — averaging $22.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$863
- Johnson & Johnson$573
- Novartis$457
- Almirall LLC$427
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$313
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$274
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,71592%
- Education$3868%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 33 | $863 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 24 | $573 |
| Novartis | 21 | $457 |
| Almirall LLC | 17 | $427 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 11 | $313 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $274 |
| Sanofi | 11 | $266 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $256 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $210 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 20 | $199 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $197 |
| Incyte Corporation | 8 | $166 |
| UCB, Inc. | 8 | $166 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $164 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 5 | $97 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $90 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $42 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Amgen | 1 | $29 |
| Organon | 1 | $27 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $22 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $21 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $17 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $16 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$5,102 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 203 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 16 | $102,905 |
| Acitretin | 13 | $7,436 |
| Fluorouracil | 72 | $5,207 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 49 | $2,349 |
| Tacrolimus | 19 | $2,248 |
| Ketoconazole | 137 | $2,001 |
| Metronidazole | 29 | $1,964 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 38 | $1,429 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 100 | $1,388 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 124 | $1,159 |
| Fluocinonide | 25 | $1,013 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 58 | $948 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide | 17 | $550 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 14 | $492 |
| Mupirocin | 61 | $460 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Charleston
- Todd SchlesingerCharleston$6.4M
- Mark SiegelCharleston$120K
- Kimberly HashemiCharleston$119K
- Erin WalkerCharleston$20K
- Alan SnyderCharleston$13K
- Dirk ElstonCharleston$13K
- David SmithCharleston$12K
- Matthew MillerGreenville$2.8M
- Marshall ShulerGreenville$2.6M
- Rebecca SmithFort Mill$2.3M
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.