Gary Headden
Emergency Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1720196777
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,600 of the $3,600 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Beckman Coulter, Inc.. Among emergency medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 1 payment — averaging $3600.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$4K
Across 328 payments — averaging $30,191 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AstraZeneca$7.2M
- Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.$781K
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$760K
- Abbott$447K
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$362K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$307K
- plus $75K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,600100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Beckman Coulter, Inc. | 1 | $3,600 |
How this compares
$3,600 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,024 emergency medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other emergency medicine in Charleston
- Gregory HallCharleston$198K
- Timothy GregoryCharleston$40K
- Jason CurryCharleston$6K
- Aalap ShahCharleston$5K
- Eric LarsonCharleston$2K
- Daniel LewisCharleston$1K
- William McGaryCharleston$1K
- Edward ObryanCharleston$971
- David DoddCharleston$888
- Richard ThompsonCharleston$723
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.