Steven Swinford, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Greenville, SCNPI 1760877096
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $25,000 of the $34,699 with a category attached, or 72.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 75.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $25,730 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $985 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 74 payments — averaging $468.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$26K
- Stryker$3K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$2K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$648
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$260
- plus $517 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$25,00072%
- Travel & lodging$3,1579%
- Food & beverage$3,92411%
- Education$2,6198%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 16 | $26,047 |
| Stryker | 13 | $3,061 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 1 | $2,359 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 15 | $1,807 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $648 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $260 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $213 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $142 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $78 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
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.
- TRITANIUM$1,720
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$576
- Other - Miscellaneous$512
- XLIF$336
- Pulse$206
- GENERAL K2M PRODUCT DISCUSSION$175
- SYMPHONY$145
- Velys$143
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$137
- A3$134
- Excelsius - GPS$119
- Foot & Ankle-None$113
- Periarticular Locking Plates$113
- DVR Crosslock Plates/Screws/Pegs$113
- RISE$108
How this compares
$34,699 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 19 | $455 |
| Gabapentin | 25 | $223 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $155 |
| Baclofen | 11 | $116 |
| Meloxicam | 32 | $62 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Greenville
- James SpearmanGreenville$58K
- Peter EversonGreenville$41K
- Joshua EskewGreenville$37K
- Alexander BurnikelGreenville$27K
- Cory SmithGreenville$24K
- Michael SimsGreenville$22K
- Ethan MaltzGreenville$20K
- Lukas KeilGreenville$19K
- William SmithColumbia$7.7M
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
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.