Joseph Hardee, PA
Physician Assistant · Florence, SCNPI 1568420321
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $18.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$89
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$69
- Boehringer Ingelheim$64
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$40
- Johnson & Johnson$35
- AstraZeneca$34
- plus $188 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$49094%
- Education$296%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 5 | $89 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $69 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $64 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $34 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $28 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amgen | 1 | $22 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant 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.
Other physician assistant in Florence
- Maggie BoykinFlorence$14K
- Chelsea AtkinsonFlorence$13K
- Abigail HamFlorence$10K
- Benjamin AddyWest Columbia$377K
- Michael OvercashCharleston$210K
- Allison LesterMt Pleasant$163K
- Nicole KeeterFort Mill$129K
- William YoungGreenville$117K
- Stephanie DavisAnderson$78K
- Vicki RobertsWest Columbia$77K
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.