Scott Ross, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Charleston, SCNPI 1164413563
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,688 of the $12,140 with a category attached, or 79.8%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 51.0% of the total.
Across 360 payments — averaging $33.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$2K
- CMS Imaging, Inc.$391
- Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC$298
- Livanova USA, Inc.$145
- plus $961 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,45220%
- Food & beverage$9,68880%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 223 | $6,195 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 70 | $2,124 |
| Abbott | 22 | $2,027 |
| CMS Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $391 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 3 | $298 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $145 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $124 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 3 | $123 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $108 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $101 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $69 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $51 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $36 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $31 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $18 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $17 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Mitra Clip system$1,129
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$1,106
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$435
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$276
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$267
- Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring$196
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$191
- MitraClip System$184
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$175
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$175
- EDWARDS INTUITY Elite valve system$137
- Perceval$121
- KONECT RESILIA$116
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$111
How this compares
$12,140 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amiodarone Hcl | 18 | $194 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Charleston
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Sanford ZeiglerCharleston$30K
- Elizabeth KlineCharleston$16K
- Alexander SbrocchiCharleston$14K
- Sarah ChenCharleston$8K
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.