Has Teresa Rice, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,983 in general payments to Teresa Rice, MD across 43 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 Teresa Rice, 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 Teresa Rice, 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.

Teresa Rice, MD

Transplant Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1043576101

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $9,756 of the $13,983 with a category attached, or 69.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$13,983in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $325.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$13K
Davol Inc.$258
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$202
Organox Ltd$185
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$175
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$120
plus $119 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$5004%
Travel & lodging$1,51411%
Food & beverage$2,17916%
Education$9,75670%
Gifts$340%

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
Intuitive Surgical	30	$12,924
Davol Inc.	2	$258
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$202
Organox Ltd	4	$185
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$175
Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$120
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$82
Medtronic	1	$22
Johnson & Johnson	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

Too few transplant surgery providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$111,290

Medicare patients

Services billed

277

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
Envarsus XrTacrolimus	11	$17,267
Valganciclovir Hcl	71	$17,018
Mycophenolate Mofetil	19	$1,725
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	144	$1,250
Famotidine	67	$905
Prednisone	43	$284
Carvedilol	38	$229
Pantoprazole Sodium	23	$224
Gabapentin	43	$119
Atorvastatin Calcium	21	$109
Acyclovir	12	$90
Tamsulosin Hcl	13	$69
Amlodipine Besylate	12	$14

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other transplant surgery in Charleston

Santosh NagarajuCharleston$8K
Christof KaltenmeierCharleston$313
Siddharth JainCharleston$202
Pradi RajagopalanCharleston$50
Ivaylo MitsievCharleston$26
Derek DubayGreenville$9K
Altan AlimGreenville$944
Todd MerchenGreenville$562

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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