Has Kevin Rust, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $552 in general payments to Kevin Rust, MD across 16 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 Kevin Rust, 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 Kevin Rust, 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.

Kevin Rust, MD

Otolaryngology · Greenwood, SCNPI 1821172560

Payments from drug & device makers

$552in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $34.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$320
Stryker$95
Acclarent, Inc$56
Peerless Surgical Inc.$45
Aerin Medical Inc.$36

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$35464%
Education$19836%

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
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	9	$320
Stryker	2	$95
Acclarent, Inc	2	$56
Peerless Surgical Inc.	1	$45
Aerin Medical Inc.	2	$36

How this compares

$552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 180 otolaryngology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$196,069

Medicare patients

1,022

Services billed

3,902

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Dupixent PenDupilumab	46	$218,086
Levothyroxine Sodium	805	$6,878
Montelukast Sodium	445	$5,396
Ipratropium Bromide	141	$4,228
Famotidine	149	$2,663
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium	48	$2,493
Fluticasone Propionate	115	$2,054
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine	81	$1,897
Mupirocin	265	$1,735
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine	17	$1,733
Oxycodone Hcl	39	$1,532
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	26	$1,469
Omeprazole	85	$1,361
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	35	$1,290
Azithromycin	341	$1,270

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Greenwood

Shaun NguyenCharleston$1.3M
Zachary SolerCharleston$834K
Rodney SchlosserCharleston$643K
Henry ButehornSpartanburg$340K
Ted MeyerCharleston$327K
Alexandra KejnerCharleston$244K
John AnsleyOrangeburg$221K
Eugene BrownCharleston$148K
David NeskeyCharleston$139K
Terrence DayCharleston$121K

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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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