Has Matthew Hamilton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,103 in general payments to Matthew Hamilton, MD across 210 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 Matthew Hamilton, MD 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 Matthew Hamilton, MD 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.

Matthew Hamilton, MD

Anesthesiology · Greenville, SCNPI 1649597089

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,826 of the $8,103 with a category attached, or 71.9%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 29.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,482, more than ten times the $163 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology 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.

$8,103in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 210 payments — averaging $38.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$2K
Medtronic$2K
Stryker$2K
Forte Bio-pharma LLC$781
Boston Scientific$544
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$280
plus $538 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,25528%
Food & beverage$5,82672%
Education$210%

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
Abbott	84	$2,414
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$1,821
Stryker	9	$1,725
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	34	$781
Boston Scientific	16	$544
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	5	$280
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$114
Amgen	6	$81
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$69
Nevro Corp.	3	$69
Curonix LLC	2	$47
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	2	$39
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$30
USWM, LLC	2	$29
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$23
Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$22
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$16

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

$8,103 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 609 anesthesiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$230,502

Medicare patients

287

Services billed

25,985

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	192	$15,936
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	238	$5,943
Fentanyl	14	$3,955
Pregabalin	34	$1,391
Lidocaine	20	$1,369
Oxycodone Hcl	84	$1,322
Gabapentin	56	$609
Tramadol Hcl	45	$555
Methocarbamol	24	$435
Tizanidine Hcl	30	$359
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	11	$266
Diclofenac Sodium	12	$205
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	31	$147
Meloxicam	15	$65

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other anesthesiology in Greenville

William HandGreenville$16K
David HallGreenville$16K
Sarah HensleyGreenville$7K
William ClarkGreenville$5K
Eugene KimGreenville$3K
Matthew KofoedGreenville$2K
Jack NeilGreenville$2K
Michael ChestnutGreenville$2K
Michael DrakeGreenville$2K
John MartinGreenville$2K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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.

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