Heather Staples
Pediatric Pulmonology · Columbia, SCNPI 1265872162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 48 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 48 payments — averaging $32.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.$280
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$200
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$178
- AstraZeneca$142
- Baxter Healthcare$130
- Vertex$130
- plus $522 from 11 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $25,832 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.
- Vertex$336K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,56599%
- Education$171%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $280 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $200 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $178 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $142 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $130 |
| Vertex | 3 | $130 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $112 |
| Amgen | 5 | $101 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 2 | $100 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $37 |
| GSK | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Gilead | 1 | $15 |
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
Too few pediatric pulmonology providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric pulmonology in Columbia
- Daniel BrownColumbia$2K
- David BrownColumbia$1K
- Michael FieldsGreenville$7K
- Charles BowmanCharleston$4K
- Sylvia SzentpeteryCharleston$4K
- Sasikumar Kilaikode CheruveettaraGreenville$3K
- Steven SnodgrassGreenville$2K
- Jane GwinnGreenville$612
- Erin KallamGreenville$171
- Concetta RivaCharleston$83
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.