Has Samuel Seltzer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,753 in general payments to Samuel Seltzer, MD across 55 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 Samuel Seltzer, 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 Samuel Seltzer, 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.

Samuel Seltzer, MD

Ophthalmology · Florence, SCNPI 1053379107

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.4% of the total across 55 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Alcon accounts for 75.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$2,753in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $50.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$2K
Rxsight Inc$206
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$124
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$109
Sight Sciences, Inc.$88
Novartis$38
plus $111 from 5 others

$32,019in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 48 payments — averaging $667.05 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.

Alcon Research LLC$25K
AbbVie$7K

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$391%
Food & beverage$2,59894%
Education$1164%

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
Alcon	38	$2,075
Rxsight Inc	5	$206
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$124
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	2	$109
Sight Sciences, Inc.	1	$88
Novartis	2	$38
Omeros Corporation	2	$29
Thea Pharma Inc.	1	$25
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	1	$20
Harrow Eye, LLC	1	$20
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	1	$18

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

$2,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$538,354

Medicare patients

645

Services billed

3,382

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
Prednisolone Acetate	688	$38,680
Diclofenac Sodium	673	$10,568
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium	25	$9,275
Latanoprost	126	$1,487
Ketorolac Tromethamine	36	$1,142
Timolol Maleate	61	$1,037
Brimonidine Tartrate	40	$713
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	19	$473
Ofloxacin	18	$299
Dorzolamide Hcl	18	$285

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Florence

Howard GreeneFlorence$8K
Kerry SolomonMt Pleasant$1.7M
William ClarkWest Columbia$768K
George WaringMt Pleasant$645K
Karolinne RochaCharleston$552K
Joseph BishopHilton Head Island$136K
Erik HappMt Pleasant$124K
Matthew ClaryColumbia$119K
Kunal KanitkarLexington$83K
Carl SloanMyrtle Beach$78K

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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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