Harris Slone, MD
Sports Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1417118365
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $45,806 of the $71,745 with a category attached, or 63.8%. Arthrex accounts for 85.5% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $40,279, more than ten times the $1,299 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 125 payments — averaging $573.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$61K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$9K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$1K
- Aesculap Biologics, LLC$209
- Miach Orthopaedics, Inc.$192
- Linvatec Corporation$91
- plus $94 from 3 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $8804.13 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.
- Arthrex$26K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,63911%
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,80664%
- Travel & lodging$8,09611%
- Food & beverage$3,4115%
- Education$6,7939%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 82 | $61,361 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 34 | $8,571 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 2 | $1,228 |
| Aesculap Biologics, LLC | 1 | $209 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 2 | $91 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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.
- NOVOCART 3D$209
How this compares
$71,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 158 sports medicine providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 24 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Charleston
- William PullenCharleston$48K
- Shelli CiandellaCharleston$11K
- Eric StemCharleston$6K
- Eugene HongCharleston$3K
- Silas HolmesColumbia$2.2M
- Stephan PillGreenville$688K
- Steven MartinSeneca$356K
- Stefan TolanGreenville$280K
- Michael KissenberthGreenville$172K
- Guillaume DumontWest Columbia$146K
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.