Has George Helmrich received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,442 in general payments to George Helmrich across 16 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 George Helmrich 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 George Helmrich 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.

George Helmrich

Obstetrics & Gynecology · Greenville, SCNPI 1700828316

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.3%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Amgen accounts for 91.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,797, more than ten times the $250 reported in 2021. 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.

$9,442in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $590.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$9K
Medtronic$180
Foundation Medicine, Inc.$165
Novo Nordisk$123
Radius Health, Inc.$121
Boston Scientific$85
plus $94 from 2 others

$1,200,551in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $1,200,551 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.

Amgen$1.2M

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,40657%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,53016%
Travel & lodging$1,56717%
Food & beverage$93910%

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
Amgen	8	$8,674
Medtronic	2	$180
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$165
Novo Nordisk	1	$123
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$121
Boston Scientific	1	$85
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$48
Baxter Healthcare	1	$46

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

$9,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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