Has Russell Chapin, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,210 in general payments to Russell Chapin, MD across 19 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 Russell Chapin, 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 Russell Chapin, 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.

Russell Chapin, MD

Diagnostic Radiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1043366636

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,743 of the $8,210 with a category attached, or 94.3%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.. 2024 is the largest year on record at $8,167, more than ten times the $14 reported in 2019. Among diagnostic radiology 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.

$8,210in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $432.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$8K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$7,74394%
Food & beverage$4676%

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
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	19	$8,210

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

$8,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 390 diagnostic radiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$353,309

Medicare patients

5,646

Services billed

14,680

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.

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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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