Michael Edwards, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Mount Pleasant, SCNPI 1649331729
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,251 of the $4,799 with a category attached, or 88.6%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 33.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,480 and has fallen 74.6% since, to $376 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $5,278.
Across 98 payments — averaging $48.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- KCI USA, Inc.$581
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$573
- Intuitive Surgical$477
- Organogenesis Inc.$373
- Smith+Nephew$331
- plus $850 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$711%
- Travel & lodging$47710%
- Food & beverage$4,25189%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $1,614 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 12 | $581 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $573 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $477 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $373 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $331 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $159 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $108 |
| Next Science LLC | 5 | $93 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 4 | $75 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| OVIK Health, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $24 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Misonix 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.
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$573
- Da Vinci Surgical System$458
- HawkOne$405
- IN.PACT Admiral$294
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$133
- Affinity$133
- Apligraf$133
- Abre$128
- Santyl$121
- REGRANEX$121
- Oasis$121
- NUZYRA$120
- PuraPly$105
- VAC VERAFLO$104
How this compares
$4,799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 20 | $15,249 |
| Pentoxifylline | 11 | $813 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 57 | $608 |
| Gabapentin | 25 | $318 |
| Pregabalin | 12 | $303 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 18 | $229 |
| Cilostazol | 18 | $185 |
| Lisinopril | 12 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Mount Pleasant
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Gautam BhatiaGreenville$31K
- Sanford ZeiglerCharleston$30K
- Charles RousseauSpartanburg$29K
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.