Sarah Cullen
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1831684869
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,060 of the $6,402 with a category attached, or 79.0%. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,093 and has fallen 72.4% since, to $577 in 2025.
Across 129 payments — averaging $49.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kairos Surgical Inc$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$725
- Smith+Nephew$518
- Medartis Inc.$491
- Organogenesis Inc.$337
- plus $2K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,06079%
- Education$1,34221%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 2 | $1,215 |
| Stryker | 14 | $1,158 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 13 | $725 |
| Smith+Nephew | 21 | $518 |
| Medartis Inc. | 8 | $491 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 11 | $337 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 9 | $215 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $213 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $186 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 3 | $144 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $116 |
| Ossio Inc | 1 | $112 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $103 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $78 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $77 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 2 | $61 |
| Celularity Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 2 | $52 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $46 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $41 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $29 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Axogen | 1 | $19 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 1 | $18 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$328
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$283
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$213
- CERAMENT G$213
- VersaWrap$186
- ORTHOLOC 3DI$172
- TENOGLIDE TENDON PROTECTOR SHEET$138
- NEURAGEN NERVE GUIDE$138
- APTUS$125
- Apligraf$121
- Dermagraft$121
- Puraply/Affinity/NuTech$121
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$116
- PRIMATRIX$116
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$116
- INTEGRA FLOWABLE WOUND MATRIX$116
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$116
- FUSEFORCE$103
How this compares
$6,402 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 87 foot & ankle surgery providers in South Carolina.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Charleston
- Christopher GrossCharleston$394K
- Rahn RavenellCharleston$51K
- Drennan JoseyCharleston$7K
- Amanda FlammanCharleston$4K
- Brandon BultsmaCharleston$2K
- Edwin BlitchCharleston$2K
- Benjamin OverleyHilton Head Island$643K
- Tyler GonzalezColumbia$525K
- Alison GartenRock Hill$419K
- Robert KleinGreenville$358K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.