Melvyn Haas
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 158 payments — averaging $17.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$326
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$323
- SK Life Science, Inc.$174
- Johnson & Johnson$167
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$165
- Livanova USA, Inc.$158
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,833100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 25 | $326 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 16 | $323 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 8 | $174 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $167 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $165 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 4 | $158 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 8 | $156 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 6 | $106 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Novartis | 5 | $95 |
| Amgen | 6 | $88 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $80 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $67 |
| Biogen | 4 | $65 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $46 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $44 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Abbott | 2 | $33 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Banner Life Sciences, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $16 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- VNS - Sentiva$108
How this compares
$2,833 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 270 neurology providers in South Carolina.
Other neurology in Aiken
- Jose CardenasAiken$216K
- Khaled KamelAiken$15K
- Mary HughesGreenville$6.3M
- William McElveenColumbia$3.7M
- Robert CarlileSummerville$2.3M
- Andrew KeeganCharleston$2.2M
- Paul MazzeoPort Royal$1.7M
- Vanessa HinsonCharleston$1.5M
- David SticklerNorth Charleston$1.2M
- Katherine RuzhanskyCharleston$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.