Melvin Seid
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Mauldin, SCNPI 1336139971
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $150,045 of the $234,659 with a category attached, or 63.9%. Daiichi Sankyo Inc. accounts for 80.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $130,514 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $5,544 in 2024. Among obstetrics & gynecology 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.
Across 368 payments — averaging $637.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$188K
- Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.$16K
- American Regent$16K
- AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$7K
- Vifor (international) Ltd.$5K
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$2K
- plus $138 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$30,53813%
- Speaking & faculty fees$150,04564%
- Travel & lodging$47,31120%
- Food & beverage$6,5053%
- Education$2600%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 333 | $188,081 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 19 | $16,471 |
| American Regent | 4 | $16,018 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $7,044 |
| Vifor (international) Ltd. | 1 | $5,406 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $1,500 |
| Organon | 1 | $138 |
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.
- INJECTAFER$197,595
- Monoferric$16,358
- FERAHEME$6,820
- ACCRUFER$1,500
How this compares
$234,659 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 673 obstetrics & gynecology providers in South Carolina.
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Other obstetrics & gynecology in Mauldin
- Christopher JenningsAnderson$1.3M
- William ColemanGreenville$242K
- Brooke NaffzigerWest Columbia$70K
- Judith BurgisColumbia$59K
- Charis ChambersGreenville$46K
- Angela ChoiCharleston$43K
- Andrew FuttermanCharleston$38K
- William OttingerCharleston$35K
- Cristian ThomaeCharleston$20K
- James DavidsonFlorence$19K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.