Has Peter Zervos, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $438 in general payments to Peter Zervos, MD across 24 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 Peter Zervos, 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 Peter Zervos, 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.

Peter Zervos, MD

Internal Medicine · Anderson, SCNPI 1619111804

Payments from drug & device makers

$438in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 24 payments — averaging $18.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$124
Pfizer$106
Mylan Specialty L.p.$58
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$44
Merck$37
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$36
plus $33 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$438100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	7	$124
Pfizer	7	$106
Mylan Specialty L.p.	2	$58
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$44
Merck	2	$37
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	2	$36
Gilead	1	$20
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$13

How this compares

$438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,558

Medicare patients

323

Services billed

943

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
Ranolazine ErRanolazine	17	$889
Diltiazem 12hr ErDiltiazem Hcl	13	$502
Amlodipine Besylate	67	$403
Hydralazine Hcl	27	$364
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	21	$322
Famotidine	16	$254
Valsartan	14	$244
Carvedilol	36	$226
Prednisone	24	$221
Lisinopril	35	$161
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	20	$160
Atorvastatin Calcium	22	$154
Pantoprazole Sodium	21	$129
Losartan Potassium	17	$110
Metoprolol Tartrate	29	$105

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Colby GrossmanSummerville$1.4M
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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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