Michael Craig, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1073621934
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 100 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $818 and has fallen 79.9% since, to $165 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $13,902.
Across 100 payments — averaging $24.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$304
- Cvrx, Inc.$290
- Boehringer Ingelheim$229
- Medtronic$217
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$217
- Scpharmaceuticals Inc.$164
- plus $1K from 16 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1000.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$1K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,447100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 12 | $304 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 11 | $290 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $229 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $217 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 3 | $217 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $164 |
| Abbott | 8 | $162 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Endologix LLC | 1 | $117 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| Merck | 5 | $84 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $83 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $75 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 4 | $70 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| Bayer | 1 | $22 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$2,447 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 30 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spironolactone | 15 | $157 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 11 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology in Charleston
- Ryan TedfordCharleston$528K
- Michael ZileCharleston$358K
- Daniel JudgeCharleston$116K
- Ramsey WehbeCharleston$108K
- Sheldon LitwinCharleston$86K
- Brian HoustonCharleston$43K
- Jan GriffinCharleston$23K
- Adrian VanbakelCharleston$21K
- Daniel SilvermanCharleston$11K
- Vishal RaoCharleston$10K
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.