Lauren Lucas
Pediatrics · Charleston, SCNPI 1912389628
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 79 payments — averaging $18.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$203
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$190
- Pfizer$159
- Corium, LLC$148
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$98
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$93
- plus $604 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,48099%
- Other$151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 12 | $203 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $190 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $159 |
| Corium, LLC | 7 | $148 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $93 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 5 | $83 |
| Sobi, Inc | 4 | $79 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $64 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Neuraxis, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $13 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 969 pediatrics providers in South Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Charleston
- Robert CliffordCharleston$9.6M
- Stephen StriplingCharleston$2.7M
- Michael LeonardiCharleston$2M
- John EtheridgeCharleston$764K
- Kathleen BertmanCharleston$348K
- Phillip McGahaCharleston$293K
- John TraynhamCharleston$226K
- Rodrigo Garcia de la Torre AstudilloCharleston$198K
- Mohammed Al GadbanCharleston$192K
- Todd VaskoCharleston$161K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.