Mark George, MD
Psychiatry · Charleston, SCNPI 1205944154
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $10,914 of the $17,459 with a category attached, or 62.5%. Livanova USA, Inc. accounts for 67.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,818, more than ten times the $196 reported in 2019. Among psychiatry 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 29 payments — averaging $602.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$12K
- Abbott$5K
- Boston Scientific$196
- Microtransponder, Inc.$26
Across 189 payments — averaging $1665.14 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.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$169K
- Abbott$135K
- Brainsway USA Inc$11K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,50014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$10,91463%
- Travel & lodging$2,95217%
- Food & beverage$1,0936%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 13 | $11,805 |
| Abbott | 12 | $5,431 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $196 |
| Microtransponder, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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.
- VNS Therapy Symmetry Model 8103 Generator$7,212
- VNS Therapy$3,000
- INFINITY$2,833
- PROCLAIM$2,500
- VNS THERAPY SENTIVA MODEL 1000 GENERATOR$1,202
- VNS - Symmetry$255
- Watchman$137
How this compares
$17,459 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 624 psychiatry 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl | 26 | $800 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 12 | $244 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 12 | $115 |
| Lamotrigine | 22 | $41 |
| Clonazepam | 19 | $39 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 12 | $39 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 12 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Charleston
- Ricardo FermoCharleston$262K
- Jacobo MintzerCharleston$132K
- Floyd SalleeCharleston$121K
- Kathleen BradyCharleston$83K
- Jordan SpencerCharleston$62K
- James BallengerCharleston$35K
- Mark HamnerCharleston$24K
- Constance AlexanderCharleston$20K
- Lalithkumar SolaiCharleston$12K
- Michael WilcoxCharleston$11K
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.