RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Sommers, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Columbia, SCNPI 1932275336

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,967in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 445 payments — averaging $20.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$1K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$668
  • Merck$614
  • Pfizer$553
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$486
  • Johnson & Johnson$476
  • plus $5K from 53 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,88999%
  • Education$781%

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

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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.

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

$8,967 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 166 hematology & oncology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$6,293,730
Medicare patients
1,106
Services billed
284,111

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
PomalystPomalidomide11$253,596
RevlimidLenalidomide11$224,894
ImbruvicaIbrutinib14$218,822
Imatinib Mesylate16$76,183
Toremifene Citrate15$13,211
EliquisApixaban12$6,944
Letrozole224$6,819
Tamoxifen Citrate91$2,737
Exemestane13$1,291
Hydroxyurea35$1,278
Dexamethasone55$1,144
Anastrozole22$1,060
Prochlorperazine Maleate102$1,055
Acyclovir50$725
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron24$481

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst$668$253,59611 claims
Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid$486$224,89411 claims
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica$27$218,82214 claims
PfizerEliquis$553$6,94412 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 50th percentile of 166 hematology & oncology providers in South Carolina.

Other hematology & oncology in Columbia

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