Rebecca Berdel, MD
Infectious Disease · West Columbia, SCNPI 1558659011
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $558 of the $668 with a category attached, or 83.5%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for infectious disease clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $781.
Across 27 payments — averaging $24.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$144
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$138
- Shionogi Inc$86
- Insmed, Inc.$62
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$46
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$38
- plus $154 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$55884%
- Education$11016%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 5 | $144 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $138 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $86 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Merck | 2 | $36 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 1 | $35 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $33 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $21 |
How this compares
$668 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 102 infectious disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daptomycin | 53 | $51,825 |
| BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | 11 | $38,967 |
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 26 | $11,488 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 92 | $9,504 |
| Ampicillin Sodium | 49 | $8,066 |
| Meropenem | 29 | $6,160 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 36 | $3,675 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 29 | $1,619 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 36 | $1,415 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 28 | $700 |
| Cephalexin | 23 | $690 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $243 |
| Amoxicillin | 12 | $107 |
| Fluconazole | 13 | $80 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GileadBiktarvy | $144 | $38,96711 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 45th percentile of 102 infectious disease providers in South Carolina.
Other infectious disease in West Columbia
- Emilio Perez JorgeWest Columbia$3K
- Elizabeth NimmichWest Columbia$2K
- Samantha WilliamsWest Columbia$919
- Natalie CauthenWest Columbia$706
- Timothy HenkelHilton Head Island$1.8M
- Toby FugateCharleston$136K
- John McKinnonCharleston$85K
- John SchrankGreenville$74K
- Rishika MotianiFlorence$43K
- John GnannCharleston$39K
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.