Has Milton Armstrong, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,454 in general payments to Milton Armstrong, MD across 84 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Milton Armstrong, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Milton Armstrong, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Milton Armstrong, MD

Surgery of the Hand · Charleston, SCNPI 1255397543

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 84 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. at 29.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,973 and has fallen 54.5% since, to $1,354 in 2025.

$10,454in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $124.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$3K
AbbVie$1K
Axogen$1K
Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
Sientra, Inc.$551
TELA Bio, Inc.$543
plus $3K from 16 others

$13,584in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $2264.00 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.

Axogen$14K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$10,454100%

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
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	5	$3,095
AbbVie(2 entities)	11	$1,195
Axogen	14	$1,187
Mentor Worldwide LLC	10	$1,013
Sientra, Inc.	5	$551
TELA Bio, Inc.	6	$543
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	4	$519
Smith+Nephew	5	$459
Acera Surgical, Inc.	4	$419
KCI USA, Inc.	5	$294
Kerecis Limited	2	$246
Access Pro Medical, LLC	1	$184
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$152
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$122
Medtronic	2	$117
Johnson & Johnson	1	$116
Bioventus LLC	1	$74
Acumed LLC	1	$50
Avita Medical Americas, LLC	1	$35
Alafair Biosciences, Inc.	1	$33
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	1	$31
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	2	$19

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

Too few surgery of the hand providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$37,371

Medicare patients

Services billed

260

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.

Other surgery of the hand in Charleston

Manoucher TavanaCharleston$29K
John McFaddenCharleston$6K
Jason ClarkCharleston$3K
Gerald ShealyCharleston$152
Nicholas WhiteFlorence$16K
Mirsad MujadzicColumbia$10K
Muamer MujadzicSumter$8K
Lawrence RudisillGreenville$2K
Christopher LittsFlorence$2K
David LukowskiLittle River$1K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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.

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