Has Reed Heckert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,993 in general payments to Reed Heckert, MD across 48 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 Reed Heckert, 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 Reed Heckert, 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.

Reed Heckert, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Beaufort, SCNPI 1083754923

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $11,620 of the $14,993 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 71.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,153 and has fallen 66.5% since, to $2,060 in 2025.

$14,993in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $312.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$11K
Peerless Surgical Inc.$3K
Arthrex$810
Stryker$514
Southtech Orthopedics$420

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,4129%
Food & beverage$1,96113%
Education$11,62078%

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
Smith+Nephew	9	$10,725
Peerless Surgical Inc.	9	$2,524
Arthrex	22	$810
Stryker(2 entities)	6	$514
Southtech Orthopedics	2	$420

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.

BIORAPTOR$452
NOVOSTITCH$452
Hip Pac$452
CINCHLOCK SS$146
HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$128
SIMPLICITI$125
Fast-Fix 360$117
NOVOSTITCH PRO$117
REGENESORB$117

How this compares

$14,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$4,769

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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James LogingClinton$118K
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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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