Ryan Werntz, MD
Urology · Greenville, SCNPI 1780940023
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,580 of the $14,562 with a category attached, or 72.7%. Photocure Inc accounts for 85.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $9,562 and has fallen 97.3% since, to $258 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $285.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Photocure Inc$12K
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$293
- Coloplast$286
- Neotract Inc.$266
- Urogen Pharma, Inc.$217
- Procept Biorobotics Corporation$189
- plus $928 from 14 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $500.00 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.
- QED Therapeutics, Inc.$500
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,58073%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,3139%
- Travel & lodging$1461%
- Food & beverage$2,52417%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Photocure Inc | 11 | $12,382 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 5 | $293 |
| Coloplast | 9 | $286 |
| Neotract Inc. | 2 | $266 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $217 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $189 |
| Bayer | 2 | $143 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $131 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $102 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Merck | 1 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $39 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Tolmar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Cysview$12,109
- UroLift$266
- AquaBeam Robotic System$189
- JELMYTO$168
- Nubeqa$128
- Olympus Resection Disposables$126
- Olympus Cysto-Resection$126
- SpaceOAR VUE System - 10mL$121
How this compares
$14,562 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 196 urology providers in South Carolina.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 51 | $440 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride | 39 | $322 |
| NitrofurantoinNitrofurantoin Macrocrystal | 12 | $205 |
| Finasteride | 15 | $136 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 18 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Greenville
- Benjamin DropkinGreenville$65K
- Christopher BallantyneGreenville$37K
- Tim LargeGreenville$32K
- William SpringhartGreenville$20K
- Kimberly BurgessGreenville$11K
- Neal ShoreMyrtle Beach$3.2M
- Manish PatelElgin$213K
- Sandip PrasadCharleston$177K
- Ian MarshallCharleston$60K
- Elizabeth BozemanFlorence$57K
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.