John Ferguson
Family Medicine · Peak, SCNPI 1518949338
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $13.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$402
- Amgen$395
- AstraZeneca$279
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$265
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$203
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$189
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,809100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 23 | $402 |
| Amgen | 30 | $395 |
| AstraZeneca | 23 | $279 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 18 | $265 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $203 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 13 | $189 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $153 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $133 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $109 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $108 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $86 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $58 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| GSK | 4 | $55 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $53 |
| Vivus LLC | 3 | $30 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $27 |
| Merck | 2 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $17 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$2,809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Peak
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Edward NewtonCharleston$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.