Stephen Stripling
Pediatrics · Charleston, SCNPI 1538122205
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $19,070 of the $30,652 with a category attached, or 62.2%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 39.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,448, 2.8 times the $3,768 reported in 2019. Among pediatrics 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 139 payments — averaging $220.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$12K
- LNHC, Inc$12K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$3K
- Corium, LLC$2K
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$500
- Welch Allyn$186
- plus $1K from 20 others
Across 471 payments — averaging $5641.74 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.
- Pfizer$1.9M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$253K
- AbbVie$152K
- AstraZeneca$136K
- Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$105K
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$28K
- plus $77K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,26020%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,07062%
- Travel & lodging$1,8536%
- Food & beverage$3,01610%
- Gifts$2881%
- Other$1651%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 27 | $12,209 |
| LNHC, Inc | 12 | $11,724 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 4 | $2,845 |
| Corium, LLC | 20 | $2,030 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $500 |
| Welch Allyn | 4 | $186 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $180 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 9 | $154 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $150 |
| Merck | 4 | $93 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $76 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 3 | $58 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $42 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| GSK | 2 | $27 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$30,652 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 969 pediatrics providers in South Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Charleston
- Robert CliffordCharleston$8K
- James McElligottCharleston$6K
- John TraynhamCharleston$4K
- Todd VaskoCharleston$3K
- Phillip McGahaCharleston$2K
- Aimee GoedeckeCharleston$2K
- Micah VaskoCharleston$2K
- Christina CuffCharleston$2K
- Vanessa AdamsCharleston$2K
- William JarvisHilton Head Island$78K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.