Jessica Richgels, PA
Physician Assistant · Charleston, SCNPI 1013514678
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 197 payments — averaging $23.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$676
- Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC$298
- Organogenesis Inc.$288
- Pfizer$264
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$253
- Boston Scientific$246
- plus $3K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,21792%
- Education$3468%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 29 | $676 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 13 | $298 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $288 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $264 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $253 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $246 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 13 | $212 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $161 |
| Bayer | 10 | $160 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $143 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $132 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 7 | $130 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Merck | 7 | $124 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $104 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 7 | $101 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 4 | $90 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $89 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $77 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $77 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 4 | $69 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Rochester Medical Corporation | 3 | $62 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Coloplast | 3 | $57 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Foundation Medicine, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $17 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $4 |
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.
- Matriderm$126
- WATCHMAN FLX$122
- Affinity$115
How this compares
$4,563 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 20 | $483 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 15 | $433 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 11 | $324 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 26 | $306 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Charleston
- Michael OvercashCharleston$210K
- Elizabeth HardingCharleston$28K
- Whitney PutillionCharleston$18K
- Corin JaynesCharleston$17K
- Karen ByrdCharleston$16K
- Colleen ManningCharleston$14K
- Kara GayCharleston$13K
- John RicheyCharleston$12K
- John HendrickCharleston$11K
- Keenan RosadoCharleston$10K
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.