Mauricio Bassante, MD
Surgery · Orangeburg, SCNPI 1366678815
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (36.0%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 71.4% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $10,353 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $310 in 2025. Among surgery 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 127 payments — averaging $153.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$177
- Smith+Nephew$167
- Conmed Corporation$159
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$66
- plus $551 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,7509%
- Travel & lodging$7,01036%
- Food & beverage$3,72319%
- Education$7,00036%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 56 | $13,907 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 25 | $4,455 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $177 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $167 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $159 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 3 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $61 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $35 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Merck | 1 | $28 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $17 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Medela LLC | 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.
How this compares
$19,483 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 553 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 116 | $891 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $308 |
| Sucralfate | 24 | $252 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Orangeburg
- Dion FrangaOrangeburg$28K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- Steven KahnCharleston$197K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- William CobbGreenville$159K
- Steven LauzonSumter$143K
- Shanu KothariGreenville$122K
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.