Mark Delegge
Gastroenterology · Charleston, SCNPI 1962510917
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $461,115 of the $567,822 with a category attached, or 81.2%. Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $126,044 and has fallen 66.8% since, to $41,832 in 2025. Among gastroenterology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 34 payments — averaging $16,701 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated$426K
- Medtronic$57K
- Cook Incorporated$36K
- Baxter Healthcare$23K
- Rockwell Medical, Inc.$12K
- Actuated Medical, Inc.$11K
- plus $3K from 2 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $2600.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Medtronic$13K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$461,11581%
- Consulting fees$97,52517%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,1502%
- Education$320%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wilson Cook Medical Incorporated | 13 | $425,590 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $57,125 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $35,525 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $23,400 |
| Rockwell Medical, Inc. | 2 | $12,000 |
| Actuated Medical, Inc. | 1 | $11,000 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $3,150 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $32 |
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.
- PEG 24$326,658
- Cook Medical Enteral Feeding$98,932
- IPS - Clinolipid$13,300
- TRIFERIC$12,000
- IPS - Nutrition$6,650
- Non-Franchise (NOF) - R&D$3,450
How this compares
$567,822 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 259 gastroenterology providers in South Carolina.
Other gastroenterology in Charleston
- Erin ForsterCharleston$788K
- Nathan ShoresCharleston$217K
- Alejandro SuarezCharleston$210K
- Peter CottonCharleston$193K
- David KochCharleston$48K
- Derek FeussnerCharleston$35K
- Darin DufaultCharleston$33K
- John LitchfieldCharleston$23K
- James SchnellCharleston$12K
- Michael SagatelianCharleston$10K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.