Has Francis Owings, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,495 in general payments to Francis Owings, MD across 34 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 Francis Owings, 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 Francis Owings, 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.

Francis Owings, MD

Hand Surgery · North Charleston, SCNPI 1487881934

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,010 of the $2,495 with a category attached, or 80.6%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 29.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $729 and has fallen 56.6% since, to $317 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,706.

$2,495in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $73.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$744
Acumed LLC$398
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$282
Axogen$244
Peerless Surgical Inc.$174
Amgen$139
plus $515 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$48519%
Food & beverage$2,01081%

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	6	$744
Acumed LLC	5	$398
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$282
Axogen	2	$244
Peerless Surgical Inc.	6	$174
Amgen	3	$139
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	1	$133
Kerecis Limited	1	$110
Johnson & Johnson	1	$87
Exsomed Corporation	1	$64
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$36
Abbott	1	$21
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$20
Lifenet Health	1	$17
Access Pro Medical, LLC	1	$15
Zyla Life Sciences, 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

$2,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 47 hand surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$211,960

Medicare patients

361

Services billed

2,431

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	106	$631
Celecoxib	21	$387
Meloxicam	166	$291
Cephalexin	13	$244
Oxycodone Hcl	28	$110
Methylprednisolone	14	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hand surgery in North Charleston

Daniel WartinbeeNorth Charleston$3K
Keith SantiagoNorth Charleston$2K
Jon DevriesNorth Charleston$2K
Dane DaleyCharleston$137K
James PriceMt Pleasant$24K
Jason DickherberSpartanburg$18K
Shea RayGreenville$13K
Sonya ClarkSpartanburg$12K
Seth BowmanColumbia$12K
Erica UmpierrezConway$11K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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