Patrick Denton, MD
Sports Medicine · Florence, SCNPI 1851391932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.2%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 56.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,100 and has fallen 75.5% since, to $1,249 in 2025.
Across 185 payments — averaging $114.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$12K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$8K
- Smith+Nephew$653
- Zimmer Biomet$350
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$172
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$123
- plus $255 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,50012%
- Travel & lodging$8,29139%
- Food & beverage$5,53026%
- Education$4,84423%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 110 | $11,993 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 41 | $7,620 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $653 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $350 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $172 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $123 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $118 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 2 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, 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.
- ROSA$139
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$125
- ULTRABUTTON$122
- Regeneten$112
- EXPAREL$104
- NA$103
How this compares
$21,166 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 158 sports 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 174 | $2,507 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 242 | $1,838 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 68 | $609 |
| Gabapentin | 130 | $564 |
| Ibuprofen | 49 | $516 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 39 | $465 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 52 | $195 |
| Meloxicam | 45 | $91 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $87 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 15 | $63 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 12 | $54 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Florence
- Zachary DipaoloFlorence$35K
- James SteinbergFlorence$7K
- Silas HolmesColumbia$2.2M
- Stephan PillGreenville$688K
- Steven MartinSeneca$356K
- Stefan TolanGreenville$280K
- Michael KissenberthGreenville$172K
- Guillaume DumontWest Columbia$146K
- Douglas WylandSpartanburg$124K
- Jeffrey GuyColumbia$120K
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.