Kendall Syms
Medical · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1467102004
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,451 of the $4,997 with a category attached, or 89.1%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 30.3% of the total.
Across 234 payments — averaging $21.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$528
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$447
- Incyte Corporation$388
- Amgen$269
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$222
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,45189%
- Education$54611%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 84 | $1,512 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 20 | $528 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 18 | $447 |
| Incyte Corporation | 15 | $388 |
| Amgen | 10 | $269 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 15 | $222 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $211 |
| Novartis | 9 | $185 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $176 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 8 | $164 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 7 | $137 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $118 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $113 |
| Organon | 4 | $93 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $92 |
| Sanofi | 4 | $90 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $78 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $39 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 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
$4,997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 384 medical 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.
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- Cameron PappasGreenville$18K
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- Claire DukeGreenville$18K
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.