Mark Roberts
Family Medicine · Aiken, SCNPI 1679659213
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 243 payments — averaging $16.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$966
- Lilly USA, LLC$391
- GSK$282
- Boehringer Ingelheim$272
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$214
- AbbVie$201
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$301%
- Food & beverage$3,98499%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 69 | $966 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 24 | $391 |
| GSK | 14 | $282 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $272 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 3 | $214 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 21 | $201 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 14 | $199 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $187 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 9 | $186 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 10 | $153 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $153 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $130 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $114 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $85 |
| Merck | 6 | $84 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Novartis | 3 | $46 |
| Amgen | 3 | $42 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $35 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Abbott | 1 | $13 |
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
$4,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 11 | $248 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Aiken
- 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.