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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $170 in general payments to Russell Hall, MD across 8 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 Hall, 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 Hall, 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 Hall, MD

Internal Medicine · Greenwood, SCNPI 1265429492

Payments from drug & device makers

$170in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $21.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

EMD Serono, Inc.$71
Abbott$64
EKOS Corporation$19
Johnson & Johnson$15

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$170100%

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.

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
EMD Serono, Inc.	2	$71
Abbott	4	$64
EKOS Corporation	1	$19
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15

How this compares

$170 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,498 internal medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$255,198

Medicare patients

496

Services billed

4,634

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
OzempicSemaglutide	388	$429,971
EliquisApixaban	207	$152,847
JardianceEmpagliflozin	129	$107,702
MounjaroTirzepatide	54	$67,192
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi	14	$50,305
RybelsusSemaglutide	15	$33,507
LinzessLinaclotide	38	$32,207
MyrbetriqMirabegron	28	$30,320
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate	30	$29,613
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	22	$17,855
TrulicityDulaglutide	11	$17,409
WegovySemaglutide	13	$16,747
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter	16	$10,406
Pravastatin Sodium	629	$10,338
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl	14	$9,077

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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