Michelle Ruse, DDS
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1205583481
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $700 of the $825 with a category attached, or 84.8%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Straumann USA LLC at 25.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $327, 4.7 times the $69 reported in 2022. That places this record below the midpoint for oral & maxillofacial surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $696.
Across 22 payments — averaging $37.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Straumann USA LLC$210
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$147
- Forte Bio-pharma LLC$131
- Stryker$91
- Polynovo North America LLC$59
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$50
- plus $136 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$70085%
- Education$12515%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Straumann USA LLC | 4 | $210 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $147 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 6 | $131 |
| Stryker | 1 | $91 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $59 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $31 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Nobel Biocare USA | 1 | $22 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Flexitouch Plus$147
- Nimbl$147
How this compares
$825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 115 oral & maxillofacial 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium Fluoride 5000 PlusFluoride (Sodium) | 16 | $100 |
| Amoxicillin | 13 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other oral & maxillofacial surgery in Charleston
- Albert OliphantCharleston$18K
- Edward StraussCharleston$10K
- Michael PorterCharleston$4K
- Courtney ShelbourneCharleston$4K
- Daniel LeeCharleston$3K
- Frederick DillardCharleston$3K
- Hunter KennisCharleston$2K
- Kacy WonderCharleston$2K
- Betsy DavisCharleston$2K
- Byung Joo LeeCharleston$2K
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.