Jeffrey Lafond
Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1245243500
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 75 payments — averaging $25.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$328
- TELA Bio, Inc.$212
- AbbVie$173
- Davol Inc.$150
- Medtronic$104
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$95
- plus $829 from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,891100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $328 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $212 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $173 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $150 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 3 | $104 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $95 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $93 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $60 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $55 |
| Merck | 2 | $52 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $40 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $36 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Distalmotion US | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Lexington Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 553 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 52 | $283 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 72 | $253 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 55 | $205 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John McGillicuddyCharleston$96K
- Nicolas PopeCharleston$71K
- Lucas WiterCharleston$44K
- Katherine MorganCharleston$29K
- Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
- Virgilio GeorgeCharleston$19K
- Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
- Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
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.