Gayle Richmond, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1144292624
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $11,184 with a category attached, or 67.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 75.5% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,861 and has fallen 87.7% since, to $1,091 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology 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 127 payments — averaging $88.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Boston Scientific$818
- AbbVie$580
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$257
- Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC$221
- Organon$132
- plus $734 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,42013%
- Food & beverage$2,17419%
- Education$7,50067%
- Gifts$901%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $8,442 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $818 |
| AbbVie | 38 | $580 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 12 | $257 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 13 | $221 |
| Organon | 8 | $132 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $97 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Amgen | 5 | $72 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $54 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $39 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $37 |
| Meditrina | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Bayer | 2 | $33 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Medicem Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Channel Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,500
- Solyx SIS System$749
- Da Vinci Surgical System$622
How this compares
$11,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 108 | $8,281 |
| YuvafemEstradiol | 21 | $3,710 |
| Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol | 21 | $1,689 |
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 17 | $1,371 |
| Raloxifene Hcl | 20 | $1,203 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 27 | $1,199 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 21 | $1,086 |
| Fluocinonide | 32 | $636 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 17 | $376 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 12 | $371 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 11 | $284 |
| Medroxyprogesterone Acetate | 18 | $220 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 15 | $186 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 19 | $133 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Murrells Inlet
- Christopher JenningsAnderson$1.3M
- William ColemanGreenville$242K
- Melvin SeidMauldin$235K
- Brooke NaffzigerWest Columbia$70K
- Judith BurgisColumbia$59K
- Charis ChambersGreenville$46K
- Angela ChoiCharleston$43K
- Andrew FuttermanCharleston$38K
- William OttingerCharleston$35K
- Cristian ThomaeCharleston$20K
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.