Lauren Thompson, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Charleston, SCNPI 1174143085
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $517 of the $616 with a category attached, or 83.9%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $718.
Across 22 payments — averaging $27.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$141
- Intuitive Surgical$125
- Dexcom, Inc.$44
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$42
- Millicent US Inc$40
- Exact Sciences$40
- plus $184 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$51784%
- Education$9916%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $141 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $125 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $40 |
| Bayer | 2 | $40 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $34 |
| Organon | 2 | $31 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Minerva Surgical, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 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.
How this compares
$616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
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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 obstetrics & gynecology in Charleston
- Angela ChoiCharleston$43K
- Andrew FuttermanCharleston$38K
- William OttingerCharleston$35K
- Cristian ThomaeCharleston$20K
- Tara van LeuvenCharleston$17K
- Harry BoatwrightCharleston$14K
- Jennifer HigdonCharleston$6K
- Casey WadsworthCharleston$5K
- Christopher JenningsAnderson$1.3M
- William ColemanGreenville$242K
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.