Robert Clifford
Pediatrics · Charleston, SCNPI 1780659284
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $6,168 of the $7,616 with a category attached, or 81.0%. GSK accounts for 83.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $4,497 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $109 in 2025. Among pediatrics clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 82 payments — averaging $92.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$6K
- Tris Pharma Inc$258
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$214
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$195
- Baxter Healthcare$150
- Pfizer$120
- plus $331 from 11 others
Across 1,231 payments — averaging $7797.45 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$7.7M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$534K
- Merck$443K
- Pfizer$371K
- AbbVie$264K
- GSK$115K
- plus $172K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,16881%
- Food & beverage$1,28317%
- Other$1652%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 13 | $6,348 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 14 | $258 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 12 | $214 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $195 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $150 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $120 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $48 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Corium, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $15 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- BEXSERO$4,250
How this compares
$7,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 969 pediatrics providers in South Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Charleston
- Stephen StriplingCharleston$31K
- James McElligottCharleston$6K
- John TraynhamCharleston$4K
- Todd VaskoCharleston$3K
- Phillip McGahaCharleston$2K
- Aimee GoedeckeCharleston$2K
- Micah VaskoCharleston$2K
- Christina CuffCharleston$2K
- Vanessa AdamsCharleston$2K
- William JarvisHilton Head Island$78K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.