RxDoctor Payments Data

Jan Basile

Internal Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1841394475

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $203,855 of the $277,935 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eli Lilly at 53.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $99,472 and has fallen 58.5% since, to $41,247 in 2025. Among internal medicine 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.

$277,935in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 338 payments — averaging $822.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eli Lilly$148K
  • Novo Nordisk$44K
  • Medtronic$28K
  • Corcept Therapeutics$22K
  • Blue Earth Diagnostics$13K
  • Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$5K
  • plus $18K from 15 others
$19,658in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $936.08 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.

  • Medtronic$10K
  • Eli Lilly$8K
  • Corcept Therapeutics$1K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$203,85573%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$22,4778%
  • Travel & lodging$43,90716%
  • Food & beverage$7,4333%
  • Education$2630%

General payments by program year

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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

$277,935 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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