Matthew Davies, MD
Pain Medicine · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1083051668
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,380 of the $11,958 with a category attached, or 61.7%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 25.5% of the total. Among pain medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 189 payments — averaging $63.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Abbott$3K
- Stryker$999
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$923
- Curonix LLC$530
- Medtronic$514
- plus $3K from 17 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3466.00 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.
- Curonix LLC$3K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,38237%
- Food & beverage$7,38062%
- Education$1331%
- Entertainment$631%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 25 | $3,051 |
| Abbott | 57 | $2,739 |
| Stryker | 9 | $999 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 20 | $923 |
| Curonix LLC | 21 | $530 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $514 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 9 | $512 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 4 | $468 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 11 | $454 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $273 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $250 |
| MML US, Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Painteq LLC | 2 | $195 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $164 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $140 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $123 |
| Lenoss Medical Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- SUPERION$1,376
- Intracept$1,166
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$1,071
- SPINEJACK$794
- PROCLAIM$526
- mild Device Kit$503
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$372
- ETERNA$259
- Senza$259
- Prospera$255
- Vyrsa V1$175
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$134
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$134
- PAINTEQ$132
- ReActiv8$125
- UBRELVY$123
- SPRINT PNS System$118
- OsteoPearl$117
- Proclaim IPG$113
- VECTRIS$109
How this compares
$11,958 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 92 pain medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 40 | $1,830 |
| Gabapentin | 50 | $598 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 27 | $458 |
| Methylprednisolone | 34 | $208 |
| Meloxicam | 26 | $115 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 39 | $103 |
| Diazepam | 16 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Murrells Inlet
- Channing WilloughbyMurrells Inlet$82K
- Brian YeeMurrells Inlet$12K
- Nicholas GentryMurrells Inlet$11K
- Phillip SmithGreenville$303K
- Richard KlineConway$104K
- Michael WarrickSumter$50K
- Daniel AtkinsonGreenville$36K
- Michael WardenFlorence$20K
- Andrew MendelsonCharleston$19K
- Sankeerth ChallagundlaColumbia$15K
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.