Has Stephen Finley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,692 in general payments to Stephen Finley, MD across 65 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Stephen Finley, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Stephen Finley, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Stephen Finley, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1922392992

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (41.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Smith+Nephew accounts for 97.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,978 and has fallen 94.2% since, to $636 in 2025.

$22,692in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 65 payments — averaging $349.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$22K
Stryker$306
Zimmer Biomet$182
Onkos Surgical, Inc.$125
Abbott$24

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,31541%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,84613%
Travel & lodging$7,37933%
Food & beverage$3,15214%

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
Smith+Nephew	59	$22,055
Stryker	2	$306
Zimmer Biomet	2	$182
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	1	$125
Abbott	1	$24

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

$22,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 30 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$267,352

Medicare patients

479

Services billed

2,865

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
Diclofenac Sodium	87	$599
Celecoxib	18	$460
Oxycodone Hcl	114	$291
Tramadol Hcl	197	$239
Methylprednisolone	38	$141
Meloxicam	58	$124
Hydromorphone Hcl	27	$102
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$99
Clindamycin Hcl	40	$36
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	12	$25
Amoxicillin	19	$14

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Greenville

Stephen RidgewayGreenville$3K
James JenningsGreenville$3K
Christopher KavolusGreenville$2K
Richard FriedmanCharleston$691K
Justin BrothersMyrtle Beach$203K
Erik HansenCharleston$192K
John McCrossonMt Pleasant$176K
Josef EichingerCharleston$117K
Peter RamseyConway$59K
Matthew SteinCharleston$29K

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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.

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