Ezinma Ezealah, MD
Rheumatology · Greenville, SCNPI 1588866479
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,211 of the $11,946 with a category attached, or 85.5%. It is spread thinly across 34 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 439 payments — averaging $27.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- Amgen$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- AstraZeneca$959
- Pfizer$734
- GSK$700
- plus $3K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,32511%
- Grants$2402%
- Food & beverage$10,21185%
- Education$1701%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 54 | $2,450 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 99 | $1,913 |
| AbbVie | 56 | $1,814 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 24 | $959 |
| Pfizer | 39 | $734 |
| GSK | 20 | $700 |
| UCB, Inc. | 21 | $538 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $351 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 22 | $234 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $225 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 8 | $209 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 4 | $199 |
| Novartis | 10 | $184 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 6 | $159 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $158 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 3 | $144 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $107 |
| Organon | 5 | $105 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 4 | $104 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 4 | $95 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $90 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $79 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $55 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Abbott | 3 | $47 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
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
$11,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 123 rheumatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 11 | $117,343 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 13 | $107,668 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 232 | $10,028 |
| Celecoxib | 101 | $7,206 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 111 | $2,824 |
| Leflunomide | 52 | $2,469 |
| Azathioprine | 25 | $2,317 |
| Prednisone | 237 | $1,926 |
| Methylprednisolone | 193 | $1,390 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 178 | $1,068 |
| Sulfasalazine | 33 | $1,013 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 33 | $909 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 20 | $753 |
| Leucovorin Calcium | 47 | $600 |
| Carisoprodol | 12 | $349 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Greenville
- Alan BrownGreenville$947K
- Long Huynh-DucGreenville$278K
- Corey EphrussiGreenville$54K
- Suhail KumarGreenville$23K
- Richard KimGreenville$20K
- Gulzar MerchantGreenville$18K
- Jeffrey LawsonGreenville$15K
- Stephen MullisGreenville$8K
- Corwin McGeeGreenville$5K
- Muthamma MachimadaGreenville$5K
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.