Rhody Fawaz, MD
Gastroenterology · Greenville, SCNPI 1902891625
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 45 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Cook Medical LLC at 30.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $687 and has fallen 81.2% since, to $129 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for gastroenterology clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $2,692.
Across 45 payments — averaging $38.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Medical LLC$530
- Medtronic$409
- Lucid Diagnostics Inc.$200
- Gilead$159
- AbbVie$150
- Pfizer$66
- plus $235 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,750100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Medical LLC | 9 | $530 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $409 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 3 | $200 |
| Gilead | 3 | $159 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $150 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $66 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $35 |
| Merck | 2 | $25 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Micra$191
- SelectSite$185
- Epclusa$125
- Hercules$114
How this compares
$1,750 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 259 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 11 | $761 |
| Omeprazole | 52 | $395 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 20 | $312 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 28 | $248 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Greenville
- Andre EaddyGreenville$212K
- Veeral OzaGreenville$199K
- Christina BauerGreenville$179K
- Joseph LebelGreenville$22K
- Michael RickoffGreenville$16K
- Joseph BaberGreenville$11K
- John EdmisonGreenville$10K
- Madhusudhan SunkavalliGreenville$9K
- Erin ForsterCharleston$788K
- Mark DeleggeCharleston$568K
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.