Heather Norton
Acute Care · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1720047517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $45,663 of the $57,166 with a category attached, or 79.9%. AbbVie accounts for 85.4% of it on its own, with 55 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $18,060 and has fallen 56.0% since, to $7,939 in 2025. Among acute care 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 624 payments — averaging $91.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$49K
- Novartis$557
- SK Life Science, Inc.$473
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$421
- Abbott$407
- Biogen$377
- plus $6K from 50 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,66380%
- Travel & lodging$6791%
- Food & beverage$10,82519%
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.
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
$57,166 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 339 acute care providers in South Carolina.
Other acute care in Mt Pleasant
- Heather BowersGreenville$94K
- Michael GajewskiColumbia$62K
- Cameron ThomassonSumter$28K
- Sarah MatthewsGreenville$28K
- Micheal BungerColumbia$15K
- Robin TrauflerColumbia$12K
- Susan FunkGreenville$11K
- Linda HentzLexington$10K
- Kylie CapdevilaFlorence$10K
- Stephanie CarsonCharleston$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.