Lawrence Freeman
Cardiovascular Disease · Greenville, SCNPI 1083606644
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 145 payments — averaging $14.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$506
- Johnson & Johnson$288
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$207
- Gilead$184
- Novartis$175
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$124
- plus $588 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,00597%
- Entertainment$673%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 29 | $506 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 32 | $288 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 11 | $207 |
| Gilead | 17 | $184 |
| Novartis | 18 | $175 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $124 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $111 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 5 | $105 |
| Hitachi Healthcare Americas Corp. | 1 | $67 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $61 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $51 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $36 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $22 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 257 cardiovascular disease providers in South Carolina.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.