Melanie Burnett
Acute Care · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1275992968
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 148 payments — averaging $20.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$601
- Novartis$208
- Boston Scientific$192
- AbbVie$165
- Abiomed$163
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$159
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,988100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $601 |
| Novartis | 11 | $208 |
| Boston Scientific | 9 | $192 |
| AbbVie | 13 | $165 |
| Abiomed | 8 | $163 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 9 | $159 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $131 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 7 | $122 |
| Amgen | 7 | $120 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $97 |
| Abbott | 4 | $84 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $84 |
| Merck | 4 | $72 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $71 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $62 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Bayer | 3 | $49 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $39 |
| Halozyme Inc | 2 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $30 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $19 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Intuity Medical Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 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
$2,988 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 339 acute care providers in South Carolina.
Other acute care in Spartanburg
- Angela CaudillSpartanburg$5K
- Amy BunchSpartanburg$4K
- Elizabeth BrannonSpartanburg$3K
- Heather BowersGreenville$94K
- Michael GajewskiColumbia$62K
- Heather NortonMt Pleasant$57K
- Cameron ThomassonSumter$28K
- Sarah MatthewsGreenville$28K
- Micheal BungerColumbia$15K
- Robin TrauflerColumbia$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.