Has Frank Phillips, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,634 in general payments to Frank Phillips, MD across 22 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 Frank Phillips, 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 Frank Phillips, 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.

Frank Phillips, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Gaffney, SCNPI 1720036825

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,634in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $74.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$508
Globus Medical$337
Zimmer Biomet$307
Next Science LLC$147
Inari Medical, Inc.$119
Si-bone, Inc.$100
plus $116 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$59136%
Food & beverage$97660%
Education$674%

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
Medtronic	6	$508
Globus Medical(2 entities)	2	$337
Zimmer Biomet	6	$307
Next Science LLC	1	$147
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$119
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$100
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$46
Arthrosurface Incorporated	1	$33
Smith+Nephew	1	$24
Stryker	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

$1,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,418

Medicare patients

226

Services billed

2,586

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
Ibuprofen	62	$813
Diclofenac Sodium	28	$619
Naproxen	28	$310
Gabapentin	17	$221
Meloxicam	82	$132
Mupirocin	15	$86
Amitriptyline Hcl	16	$76
Oxycodone Hcl	22	$50
Tramadol Hcl	12	$27
Chlorhexidine Gluconate	14	$5

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Gaffney

William SmithColumbia$7.7M
Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
Brent PonceCharleston$892K
Chi LimSpartanburg$512K
Todd LansfordNorth Charleston$288K
Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
Richard MarksWest Columbia$176K
Brayton ShirleyGreer$134K
James LogingClinton$118K
Justin SmithRock Hill$102K

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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