Richard Covington
Family Medicine · Myrtle Beach, SCNPI 1073510053
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 96 payments — averaging $15.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$286
- Amgen$277
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$162
- Lilly USA, LLC$160
- Merck$138
- GSK$126
- plus $370 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,520100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 25 | $286 |
| Amgen | 11 | $277 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 9 | $162 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $160 |
| Merck | 6 | $138 |
| GSK | 4 | $126 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $40 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $35 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $12 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 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.
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$103
- Repatha$102
How this compares
$1,520 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Myrtle Beach
- Chad HubertyMyrtle Beach$575K
- Jonathan BornfreundMyrtle Beach$222K
- David WeitzmanMyrtle Beach$181K
- Patrick RyanMyrtle Beach$167K
- Edward McCarthyMyrtle Beach$86K
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.