John Welsh, MD
Dermatology · Myrtle Beach, SCNPI 1881606168
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 154 payments — averaging $20.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$614
- AbbVie$541
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$390
- Sanofi$388
- Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals$158
- LEO Pharma Inc.$151
- plus $966 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,85189%
- Education$35711%
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 | 42 | $614 |
| AbbVie | 30 | $541 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 17 | $390 |
| Sanofi | 12 | $388 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $158 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 9 | $151 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $149 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $149 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $120 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $107 |
| Novartis | 5 | $86 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Amgen | 4 | $66 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $42 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ZORYVE$108
How this compares
$3,208 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 203 dermatology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluorouracil | 77 | $4,821 |
| Mupirocin | 242 | $2,065 |
| Tacrolimus | 16 | $1,943 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 97 | $1,723 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 40 | $1,543 |
| Ketoconazole | 107 | $1,540 |
| Cephalexin | 159 | $1,529 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 35 | $1,140 |
| Metronidazole | 21 | $1,126 |
| Fluocinolone Acetonide | 28 | $909 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 71 | $848 |
| Hydrocortisone | 178 | $839 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 35 | $704 |
| Prednisone | 45 | $135 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 13 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dermatology in Myrtle Beach
- Misty PolstonMyrtle Beach$16K
- Robert PurvisMyrtle Beach$15K
- Michael CentilliMyrtle Beach$10K
- Mary GloverMyrtle Beach$10K
- Cheryl ZeidmanMyrtle Beach$9K
- Christopher SkvarkaMyrtle Beach$9K
- Lucia GriffithMyrtle Beach$8K
- Todd SchlesingerCharleston$6.4M
- Matthew MillerGreenville$2.8M
- Marshall ShulerGreenville$2.6M
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.