Has Mark Delegge received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $567,822 in general payments to Mark Delegge across 34 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mark Delegge did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mark Delegge come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

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.

$567,822in general payments, 2019–2025

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

$13,000in research payments, 2019–2025

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.

How this compares

$567,822 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 259 gastroenterology providers in South Carolina.

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Darin DufaultCharleston$33K
John LitchfieldCharleston$23K
James SchnellCharleston$12K
Michael SagatelianCharleston$10K

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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.

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