Mark Pelstring
Family Medicine · Loris, SCNPI 1285726232
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 141 payments — averaging $15.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$320
- AstraZeneca$248
- Novo Nordisk$209
- Boehringer Ingelheim$176
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$154
- Lilly USA, LLC$116
- plus $900 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,114100%
- Education$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $320 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $248 |
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $209 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $176 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $154 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $116 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $98 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $97 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $94 |
| GSK | 6 | $83 |
| Novartis | 5 | $74 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $52 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Amgen | 3 | $43 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $26 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $23 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
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.
- FARXIGA$125
How this compares
$2,123 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Loris
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Edward NewtonCharleston$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.