Rica Santiago
Internal Medicine · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1457509200
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $977 of the $1,308 with a category attached, or 74.7%. AstraZeneca accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 11 payments — averaging $118.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Merck$35
Across 826 payments — averaging $13,079 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$5.2M
- Pfizer$1.5M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$1.3M
- Modernatx, Inc.$579K
- GSK$464K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$424K
- plus $1.3M from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$97775%
- Food & beverage$33125%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $1,273 |
| Merck | 1 | $35 |
How this compares
$1,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other internal medicine in Mt Pleasant
- Richard MillsMt Pleasant$15K
- Susan DattaMt Pleasant$14K
- Swapna OmrajuMt Pleasant$10K
- John StewartMt Pleasant$10K
- Jerry BackNorth Charleston$322K
- Jan BasileCharleston$278K
- Mark PurcellGreenville$165K
- John CleekCharleston$136K
- William BunnHilton Head Island$125K
- Zion LammGreenville$118K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.