Jesse Lewis, MD
Surgery of the Hand · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1770889131
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.0%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Skeletal Dynamics Inc accounts for 62.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $616 and has fallen 89.1% since, to $67 in 2024.
Across 10 payments — averaging $79.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$500
- Trimed, Inc.$119
- Trice Medical, Inc.$66
- Johnson & Johnson$37
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$34
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$15
- plus $27 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$25632%
- Food & beverage$42353%
- Entertainment$11915%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $500 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $37 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $12 |
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 surgery of the hand providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 66 | $232 |
| Methylprednisolone | 23 | $111 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 36 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery of the hand in Murrells Inlet
- Manoucher TavanaCharleston$29K
- Nicholas WhiteFlorence$16K
- Milton ArmstrongCharleston$10K
- Mirsad MujadzicColumbia$10K
- Muamer MujadzicSumter$8K
- John McFaddenCharleston$6K
- Jason ClarkCharleston$3K
- Lawrence RudisillGreenville$2K
- Christopher LittsFlorence$2K
- David LukowskiLittle River$1K
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.