Margaret Galipeau
Gerontology · Greenville, SCNPI 1992460513
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,907 of the $2,996 with a category attached, or 63.7%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Peerless Surgical Inc. at 35.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,000 and has fallen 79.5% since, to $410 in 2025.
Across 29 payments — averaging $103.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$1K
- Arthrex$490
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$462
- Medacta USA, Inc.$271
- Exactech, Inc.$190
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$130
- plus $392 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08936%
- Food & beverage$1,90764%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 7 | $1,062 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $490 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $462 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 2 | $271 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $190 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $130 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $124 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $81 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $81 |
| Stryker | 1 | $21 |
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.
- TACTOSET$294
- EQUINOXE$190
- Integrity$151
- RevoMotion$150
- Shoulder System$144
- Geminus$130
- Align$130
- IJS$130
- Implate$130
- MECTA$128
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$124
How this compares
$2,996 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 137 gerontology providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 20 | $1,223 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 152 | $508 |
| Celecoxib | 12 | $446 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 79 | $331 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 114 | $214 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 57 | $98 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 24 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gerontology in Greenville
- Timothy MalinowskiGreenville$49K
- Kathryn RarickGreenville$10K
- Rachael WillsGreenville$8K
- Karen CainGreenville$8K
- Sarah BramonGreenville$6K
- Gina FultonGreenville$5K
- Catherine BrickleyGreenville$4K
- Heather Holweger-GarciaGreenville$3K
- Lucinda SmithGreenville$3K
- Laura FreemanGreenville$3K
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.