Heather Currier, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Columbia, SCNPI 1073672358
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.5%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 73.8% of it on its own, with 33 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 279 payments — averaging $82.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- Atricure, Inc.$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$781
- Abiomed$774
- Medtronic$688
- Zimmer Biomet$543
- plus $2K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9,76742%
- Food & beverage$8,44537%
- Education$4,07218%
- Gifts$7113%
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 | 119 | $16,971 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 70 | $1,499 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $781 |
| Abiomed | 9 | $774 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $688 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 9 | $543 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $236 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 7 | $230 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $188 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $181 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $121 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $120 |
| Merck | 3 | $74 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $52 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $49 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $38 |
| BD | 1 | $38 |
| On Target Laboratories, Inc | 1 | $38 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $37 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $26 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $23 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $13 |
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
$22,996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 20 | $206 |
| Mupirocin | 19 | $138 |
| Furosemide | 16 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in West Columbia
- William YarbroughWest Columbia$6K
- Jeffrey TravisWest Columbia$5K
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Gautam BhatiaGreenville$31K
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.