Stefan Tolan, MD
Sports Medicine · Greenville, SCNPI 1770695348
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $230,831 of the $279,738 with a category attached, or 82.5%. Stryker accounts for 82.4% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $102,708 and has fallen 98.8% since, to $1,230 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 351 payments — averaging $796.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$231K
- Exactech, Inc.$43K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$2K
- Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$960
- Smith+Nephew$479
- Arthrex$375
- plus $3K from 18 others
Across 35 payments — averaging $5478.77 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$185K
- Smith+Nephew$7K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$230,83183%
- Travel & lodging$31,69411%
- Food & beverage$15,3675%
- Education$1,8471%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 250 | $230,528 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 46 | $42,511 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 9 | $2,242 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $960 |
| Smith+Nephew | 11 | $479 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $375 |
| Avanos Medical | 3 | $334 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $263 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $246 |
| Miach Orthopaedics, Inc. | 1 | $184 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $170 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $162 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 2 | $154 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $141 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $130 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $93 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- REUNION$155,315
- MAKO$56,026
- EQUINOXE$31,430
- TRIATHLON$14,239
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$12,168
- SIMPLICITI$6,815
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$2,909
- RESTORATION$1,130
- ACCOLADE$1,130
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$926
- AXSOS$772
- TACTOSET$436
- Integrity$303
- Irrisept$246
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$241
- AEQUALIS PERFORM REVERSED$185
- EQUINOXE PHX SYSTEM$169
- Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$162
- Integrity implant$153
- ICONIX$150
How this compares
$279,738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 158 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methylprednisolone | 81 | $405 |
| Celecoxib | 50 | $364 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 62 | $313 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 56 | $127 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $126 |
| Meloxicam | 46 | $64 |
| Amoxicillin | 39 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Greenville
- Stephan PillGreenville$688K
- Michael KissenberthGreenville$172K
- Scott WatsonGreenville$47K
- Alyssa AlthoffGreenville$35K
- Robert LongstaffeGreenville$32K
- Derik GeistGreenville$14K
- Benjamin KochGreenville$11K
- Jason FolkGreenville$9K
- Thomas BaumgartenGreenville$7K
- Andrew AlbanoGreenville$4K
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.