Elizabeth Richardson, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Charleston, SCNPI 1396125209
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (57.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.1% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,178 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $199 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 82 payments — averaging $63.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- AbbVie$342
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$122
- Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC$81
- Bayer$74
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$72
- plus $560 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$94918%
- Food & beverage$1,27524%
- Education$3,01158%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 9 | $3,983 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 23 | $342 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 6 | $122 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 4 | $81 |
| Bayer | 5 | $74 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $66 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Organon | 3 | $47 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $43 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $39 |
| Merck | 2 | $37 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Lupin Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Meditrina | 1 | $17 |
| AMAG 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.
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$938
How this compares
$5,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 91 | $5,778 |
| YuvafemEstradiol | 13 | $1,442 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 21 | $735 |
| Fluconazole | 19 | $117 |
| Nystatin | 11 | $110 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Charleston
- Angela ChoiCharleston$43K
- Andrew FuttermanCharleston$38K
- William OttingerCharleston$35K
- Cristian ThomaeCharleston$20K
- Tara van LeuvenCharleston$17K
- Harry BoatwrightCharleston$14K
- Jennifer HigdonCharleston$6K
- Casey WadsworthCharleston$5K
- Christopher JenningsAnderson$1.3M
- William ColemanGreenville$242K
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.