Matthew McLaren, MD
Pain Medicine · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1598760332
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,577 of the $7,977 with a category attached, or 69.9%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 27.2% of the total.
Across 107 payments — averaging $74.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Stimwave Technologies Incorporated$975
- Nevro Corp.$477
- Medtronic$445
- plus $895 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,40030%
- Food & beverage$5,57770%
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 | 27 | $2,169 |
| Abbott | 26 | $1,579 |
| Stryker | 11 | $1,436 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 5 | $975 |
| Nevro Corp. | 8 | $477 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $445 |
| Curonix LLC | 3 | $270 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $224 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $48 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $26 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Valinor Pharma, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $19 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- mild Device Kit$1,012
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$691
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$691
- ETERNA$622
- PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$244
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$243
- Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$199
- KYPHON Balloon Kyphoplasty$189
- Octrode SCS Leads$141
- Evoke$117
- Vyrsa V1$116
- Senza$108
- PROCLAIM$103
How this compares
$7,977 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 36 | $833 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 34 | $687 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $670 |
| Pregabalin | 18 | $285 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 14 | $269 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $166 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 12 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Mt Pleasant
- Phillip SmithGreenville$303K
- Richard KlineConway$104K
- Channing WilloughbyMurrells Inlet$82K
- Michael WarrickSumter$50K
- Daniel AtkinsonGreenville$36K
- Michael WardenFlorence$20K
- Andrew MendelsonCharleston$19K
- Sankeerth ChallagundlaColumbia$15K
- Kevin WalkerGreenville$14K
- Matthew DaviesMurrells Inlet$12K
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.