Luca Paoletti, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1639378367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (41.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boehringer Ingelheim at 41.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $3,243 and has fallen 85.4% since, to $472 in 2025.
Across 21 payments — averaging $260.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$2K
- Abbott$447
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$297
- United Therapeutics Corporation$255
- Medtronic$156
- plus $329 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,74032%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,23941%
- Food & beverage$1,48427%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $2,239 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $1,740 |
| Abbott | 4 | $447 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $297 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $255 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $156 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 2 | $83 |
| Hemosonics LLC | 1 | $57 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $38 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
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.
- OFEV$2,239
- GIAPREZA$277
- VITALFLOW CONSOLE$156
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$146
- REZUROCK$132
- TYVASO$130
- Circulatory Support$127
- CentriMag$114
How this compares
$5,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 93 critical care medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 165 | $1,884,885 |
| Pirfenidone | 53 | $132,109 |
| Atovaquone | 51 | $32,240 |
| Posaconazole | 18 | $26,363 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 21 | $17,182 |
| Tacrolimus | 65 | $11,609 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 43 | $5,137 |
| Valganciclovir Hcl | 18 | $4,263 |
| Azithromycin | 51 | $1,371 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 50 | $1,242 |
| Acyclovir | 50 | $1,167 |
| Famotidine | 71 | $1,040 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 76 | $963 |
| Prednisone | 75 | $767 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 20 | $663 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev | $2,239 | $1,884,885165 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 93 critical care medicine providers in South Carolina.
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- John MitchellCharleston$10K
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- Tatsiana BeikoCharleston$4K
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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.