John Yelton
Pediatrics · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1972573616
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $17.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$300
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$105
- Merck$91
- Sobi, Inc$78
- GSK$68
- AstraZeneca$67
- plus $487 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,197100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 18 | $300 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 6 | $105 |
| Merck | 6 | $91 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $78 |
| GSK | 5 | $68 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $67 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $64 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $24 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $20 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Cepheid | 1 | $17 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Cipher Pharmaceuticals US LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,197 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 969 pediatrics providers in South Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Spartanburg
- Asif KidwaiSpartanburg$4K
- William WeathersSpartanburg$4K
- Robert CliffordCharleston$9.6M
- Scott DobsonSimpsonville$5.3M
- Anthony PruittBlythewood$4.7M
- Stephen StriplingCharleston$2.7M
- Michael LeonardiCharleston$2M
- Justin MollGreenville$1.7M
- Abraham MoskowBarnwell$1.1M
- John EtheridgeCharleston$764K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.