Has Richard McCarroll, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,187 in general payments to Richard McCarroll, MD across 46 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 Richard McCarroll, 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 Richard McCarroll, 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.

Richard McCarroll, MD

Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1194013656

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $11,187 with a category attached, or 62.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $10,294 and has fallen 93.9% since, to $628 in 2024.

$11,187in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $243.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$10K
Globus Medical$602
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$264
Conmed Corporation$26

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,68424%
Food & beverage$1,50313%
Education$7,00063%

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
Intuitive Surgical	40	$10,294
Globus Medical	3	$602
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	2	$264
Conmed Corporation	1	$26

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.

How this compares

$11,187 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$77,935

Medicare patients

173

Services billed

373

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	83	$630
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	13	$106
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	14	$104
Tramadol Hcl	15	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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David MoffatColumbia$21K
Jacob HesseyColumbia$18K
Michael FitzgeraldColumbia$16K
Ratnakishore PallapothuColumbia$14K
Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
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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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