Has John Rinkliff, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,585 in general payments to John Rinkliff, MD across 21 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Rinkliff, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Rinkliff, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Rinkliff, MD

Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1104876572

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,585in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $170.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Focal Therapeutics, Inc.$802
Stryker$673
Hologic Inc$643
Bioptics, Inc.$509
Elucent Medical$164
Globus Medical$137
plus $658 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,44568%
Food & beverage$1,14032%

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
Focal Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$802
Stryker	1	$673
Hologic Inc	1	$643
Bioptics, Inc.	2	$509
Elucent Medical	2	$164
Globus Medical	1	$137
Lifenet Health	1	$129
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$128
Novo Nordisk	1	$113
Medtronic	2	$105
Covidien LP	2	$75
Merit Medical Systems Inc	1	$57
Johnson & Johnson	1	$27
KUB Technologies Inc.	1	$24

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

$3,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$133,559

Medicare patients

357

Services billed

917

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
Lidocaine-PrilocaineLidocaine/Prilocaine	33	$381
Ondansetron Hcl	25	$75
Tramadol Hcl	39	$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Greenville

Hongjie YuanGreenville$431K
John ScottGreenville$242K
Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
Jeremy WarrenGreenville$193K
Shanu KothariGreenville$191K
William CobbGreenville$159K
Nathan SmithGreenville$24K
Wesley JonesGreenville$17K
Michael LoveGreenville$16K
Colin WebbGreenville$16K

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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.

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