Sarah Yannascoli, MD
Hand Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1407174402
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Axogen at 36.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,300 and has fallen 85.3% since, to $487 in 2025.
Across 84 payments — averaging $94.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Axogen$3K
- Sonex Health, Inc.$2K
- Acumed LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$673
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$366
- Stryker$225
- plus $827 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,61946%
- Food & beverage$4,32654%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Axogen | 15 | $2,870 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 16 | $1,754 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $1,230 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $673 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $366 |
| Stryker | 2 | $225 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $162 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $137 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $90 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $67 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 1 | $64 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $8 |
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.
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$2,162
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,917
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,917
- Sx-One Microknife$1,526
- INnate Implant$994
- InFrame Implant$994
- ACUMED$994
- IM NAILS$230
- GAMMA$137
- I-digits quantum$125
- HAMMERLOCK$125
- NA$125
- VA-LCP$125
How this compares
$7,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 47 hand 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.
Other hand surgery in Charleston
- Dane DaleyCharleston$137K
- Charles DalyCharleston$3K
- Kimberly YoungCharleston$3K
- Reginald BrookerCharleston$1K
- John ErnstCharleston$614
- John MacilwaineCharleston$596
- William MuirheadCharleston$398
- James PriceMt Pleasant$24K
- Jason DickherberSpartanburg$18K
- Shea RayGreenville$13K
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.