Nicole Rice, DO
Family Medicine · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1750761409
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 243 payments — averaging $18.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$541
- Pfizer$508
- AstraZeneca$434
- AbbVie$430
- Lilly USA, LLC$371
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$282
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,577100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 31 | $541 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $508 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $434 |
| AbbVie | 26 | $430 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $371 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 19 | $282 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $212 |
| Amgen | 12 | $200 |
| Exact Sciences | 9 | $165 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $147 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $138 |
| GSK | 6 | $130 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $116 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $94 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 4 | $78 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Bayer | 3 | $66 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $59 |
| Abbott | 3 | $58 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 3 | $54 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $30 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Renalytix AI, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 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.
How this compares
$4,577 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,153 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 69 | $89,264 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 74 | $82,548 |
| EliquisApixaban | 48 | $55,152 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 23 | $33,503 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 31 | $33,136 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 14 | $20,485 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 20 | $12,773 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 89 | $3,583 |
| Gabapentin | 142 | $3,247 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 21 | $3,178 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 317 | $2,898 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 173 | $2,826 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 139 | $2,371 |
| Pregabalin | 13 | $2,116 |
| Omeprazole | 127 | $1,832 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $212 | $89,26469 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $541 | $82,54874 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $508 | $55,15248 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $371 | $33,50323 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $130 | $33,13631 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $434 | $20,48514 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $147 | $12,77320 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $430 | $79714 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Mt Pleasant
- Richard WilkesMt Pleasant$216K
- Valerie ScottMt Pleasant$23K
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
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.