John McGillicuddy, MD
Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1528283488
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 21 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 10 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $422 and has fallen 60.8% since, to $166 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $1,501.
Across 21 payments — averaging $48.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$169
- Organox Ltd$154
- Davol Inc.$134
- Intuitive Surgical$119
- Medtronic$107
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$100
- plus $231 from 4 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $9451.80 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.
- Astellas Pharma Global Development$90K
- Novartis$5K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,014100%
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(2 entities) | 7 | $169 |
| Organox Ltd | 2 | $154 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $119 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $107 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $43 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $42 |
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.
- Phasix Mesh$134
- HemoBlast Bellows$100
How this compares
$1,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 80 | $21,310 |
| EliquisApixaban | 22 | $19,563 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 115 | $1,234 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 17 | $1,172 |
| Famotidine | 41 | $553 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 28 | $348 |
| Prednisone | 38 | $260 |
| Carvedilol | 51 | $243 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 25 | $220 |
| Methocarbamol | 25 | $214 |
| Gabapentin | 49 | $189 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 38 | $139 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 18 | $81 |
| Furosemide | 18 | $78 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 11 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Charleston
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- Steven KahnCharleston$197K
- Nicolas PopeCharleston$59K
- Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
- Virgilio GeorgeCharleston$19K
- Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
- Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
- David McCabeCharleston$15K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
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.