Ralph Tesseneer
Family Medicine · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1164400214
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 114 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,529 and has fallen 97.5% since, to $38 in 2024.
Across 114 payments — averaging $15.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$229
- AbbVie$201
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$182
- AstraZeneca$153
- Johnson & Johnson$153
- Amgen$150
- plus $686 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,755100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 13 | $229 |
| AbbVie | 12 | $201 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $182 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $153 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $153 |
| Amgen | 12 | $150 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $93 |
| Novartis | 7 | $90 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $83 |
| GSK | 5 | $72 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $63 |
| Merck | 5 | $63 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $39 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $38 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 2 | $26 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $14 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- ELIQUIS$125
How this compares
$1,755 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Spartanburg
- Latasha SelibySpartanburg$24K
- George BailesSpartanburg$22K
- Mark KnipferSpartanburg$15K
- Thomas NowatkaSpartanburg$13K
- Baker BolesSpartanburg$13K
- Stephen BruntonWinnsboro$1.3M
- Richard WilkesMt Pleasant$216K
- Andrew MartinColumbia$205K
- Ada StewartColumbia$186K
- Jeffrey BroderNorth Augusta$140K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.