Meron Selassie, MD
Pain Medicine · Charleston, SCNPI 1932490091
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,240 of the $2,015 with a category attached, or 61.6%. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. accounts for 75.7% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,374 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $170 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,431.
Across 13 payments — averaging $154.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$2K
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$264
- Medtronic$115
- MML US, Inc.$96
- Nevro Corp.$14
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,24062%
- Food & beverage$77538%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 4 | $1,526 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 3 | $264 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $115 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Intracept$3,052
- SPRINT PNS System$132
How this compares
$2,015 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 12 | $8,143 |
| Lidocaine | 27 | $2,479 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 43 | $1,415 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 30 | $825 |
| Pregabalin | 44 | $800 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 44 | $764 |
| Gabapentin | 55 | $693 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 40 | $687 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $477 |
| Baclofen | 22 | $466 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 19 | $409 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 14 | $397 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 65 | $384 |
| Methocarbamol | 22 | $318 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 19 | $305 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Charleston
- Andrew MendelsonCharleston$19K
- Martin BurkeCharleston$11K
- Ameet NagpalCharleston$9K
- Justin WikleCharleston$5K
- Robert SullivanCharleston$5K
- Derrick RandallCharleston$3K
- Edward TavelCharleston$2K
- Michael HillegassCharleston$2K
- Ann FoxxCharleston$1K
- Phillip SmithGreenville$303K
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.