Kevin Pugh, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Florence, SCNPI 1043204704
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $82,625 of the $93,897 with a category attached, or 88.0%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $63,851 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $14 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $1067.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$92K
- Encore Medical, LP$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$373
- Zimmer Biomet$104
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$33
- Amgen$30
- plus $38 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,5002%
- Speaking & faculty fees$82,62588%
- Travel & lodging$6,6087%
- Food & beverage$3,0793%
- Education$850%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 67 | $91,708 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 2 | $1,610 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $373 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $104 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Solventum Corporation | 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.
- Taylor Spatial Frame$34,197
- Ilizarov System$31,375
- EVOS$27,107
- CANNULATED SCREWS$26,412
- META TAN$26,377
- Conquest FN$22,938
- Peri-Loc$15,748
- Peri-Loc VLP$15,183
- TRIGEN Femoral (FAN/TAN/Meta Nail)$14,677
- Peri-Loc PFP$14,625
- TRIGEN Humeral$11,188
- TRIGEN Sureshot$1,574
- Jet-X$600
- TRIGEN InterTAN$558
- TRIGEN Meta-Nail$558
- TRIGEN Humeral Nail System$343
- EVOS MINI$343
- Legion Revision$119
- IM NAILS$118
- DJO SURGICAL$110
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 orthopaedic trauma in Florence
- Jeremy SparkmanFlorence$16K
- Evan HannaFlorence$3K
- John AdamsGreenville$1M
- Coleman FowbleColumbia$208K
- Kyle JerayGreenville$177K
- Kristoff ReidCharleston$17K
- Thomas SchallerGreenville$16K
- Jared NewmanCharleston$11K
- Daniel CunninghamColumbia$8K
- James BlackSpartanburg$8K
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.