Has Joseph Scott Bittle, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,820 in general payments to Joseph Scott Bittle, MD across 358 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 Joseph Scott Bittle, 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 Joseph Scott Bittle, 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.

Joseph Scott Bittle, MD

Diagnostic Radiology · Greenville, SCNPI 1588192629

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,078 of the $15,820 with a category attached, or 63.7%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inari Medical, Inc. at 40.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,052, more than ten times the $15 reported in 2021. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$15,820in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 358 payments — averaging $44.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inari Medical, Inc.$6K
Stryker$5K
Imperative Care, Inc$759
Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$629
Medtronic$495
Balt USA, LLC$349
plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,50028%
Travel & lodging$1,2428%
Food & beverage$10,07864%

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
Inari Medical, Inc.	155	$6,393
Stryker	50	$5,312
Imperative Care, Inc	17	$759
Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.	42	$629
Medtronic	13	$495
Balt USA, LLC	20	$349
Penumbra, Inc.	6	$344
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$222
Terumo Medical Corporation	9	$208
Shockwave Medical, Inc	6	$136
Johnson & Johnson	1	$130
Cagent Vascular Inc	6	$119
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	5	$118
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$115
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	6	$100
Angiodynamics, Inc.	2	$60
Surmodics, Inc.	2	$49
Abbott	3	$44
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$40
Argon Medical Devices, Inc.	2	$40
Instylla, Inc.	2	$35
Philips North America LLC	2	$33
Cordis US CORP.	2	$32
Boston Scientific	1	$21
Sirtex Medical Inc	1	$17
Delcath Systems	1	$17

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

$15,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 390 diagnostic radiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$162,745

Medicare patients

1,020

Services billed

2,296

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 diagnostic radiology in Greenville

Aquilla TurkGreenville$1.1M
Derek JakesGreenville$11K
Benjamin HendersonGreenville$9K
Matthew GrahamGreenville$8K
Jared JaynesGreenville$3K
Mohamad MardanbigiGreenville$3K
Nina VincoffGreenville$2K
Joseph ParrishGreenville$2K
Pal SuranyiGreenville$2K
Amanda ScopteuoloGreenville$1K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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