RxDoctor Payments Data

Luke Sowell

Physician Assistant · Pelzer, SCNPI 1285412866

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,211in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $46.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Atricure, Inc.$882
  • Getinge USA Sales, LLC$712
  • Abiomed$159
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$120
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$98
  • Peerless Surgical Inc.$73
  • plus $167 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$52924%
  • Food & beverage$1,58472%
  • Education$984%

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

24
25

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.

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

$2,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$8,272
Medicare patients
27
Services billed
93

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate25$169
Metoprolol Tartrate29$152
Atorvastatin Calcium22$129
Tramadol Hcl29$61
Carvedilol21$56
Metoprolol Succinate12$56
Pantoprazole Sodium12$56
Potassium Chloride18$55
Oxycodone Hcl13$29
Spironolactone11$23
Furosemide21$20

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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