Sara Shields Tarwater
Surgery · Georgetown, SCNPI 1447786926
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 24 payments — averaging $85.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$151
- Intra-sana Laboratories$98
- Teleflex LLC$53
- Novo Nordisk$48
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$31
- plus $94 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,21959%
- Food & beverage$84141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Davol Inc. | 8 | $1,586 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $151 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 4 | $98 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $48 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $30 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 553 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 17 | $377 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 24 | $259 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 14 | $109 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 33 | $72 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 18 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Georgetown
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$892K
- Steven KahnCharleston$433K
- Hongjie YuanGreenville$431K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- Jeremy WarrenGreenville$193K
- Shanu KothariGreenville$191K
- William CobbGreenville$159K
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.