Emily Thatcher
Physician Assistant · Charleston, SCNPI 1366005894
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 105 payments — averaging $25.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$579
- CSL Behring$364
- Octapharma USA, Inc.$316
- Grifols USA, LLC$145
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$139
- Amgen$138
- plus $968 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,63499%
- Education$161%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 24 | $579 |
| CSL Behring | 11 | $364 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 5 | $316 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 6 | $145 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Amgen | 7 | $138 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 6 | $126 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $124 |
| Sanofi | 7 | $123 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $116 |
| Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Sobi, Inc | 5 | $80 |
| Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| HEMA Biologics, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $48 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Medunik USA Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bayer | 1 | $21 |
| Emmaus Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| RARE Disease Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,650 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant providers in South Carolina.
Other physician assistant in Charleston
- Michael OvercashCharleston$210K
- Elizabeth HardingCharleston$28K
- Whitney PutillionCharleston$18K
- Corin JaynesCharleston$17K
- Karen ByrdCharleston$16K
- Colleen ManningCharleston$14K
- Kara GayCharleston$13K
- John RicheyCharleston$12K
- John HendrickCharleston$11K
- Keenan RosadoCharleston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.