Theresa Kossler
Acute Care · Columbia, SCNPI 1518787563
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 70 payments — averaging $22.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$323
- Novartis$245
- Atricure, Inc.$115
- Novo Nordisk$99
- AstraZeneca$99
- Pfizer$88
- plus $573 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,51698%
- Education$272%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 15 | $323 |
| Novartis | 11 | $245 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $115 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $99 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $99 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $88 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Bayer | 3 | $55 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $55 |
| Abbott | 2 | $49 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Merck | 2 | $42 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $27 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $27 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $13 |
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.
- AMVUTTRA$117
How this compares
$1,543 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 339 acute care providers in South Carolina.
Other acute care in Columbia
- Michael GajewskiColumbia$62K
- Micheal BungerColumbia$15K
- Robin TrauflerColumbia$12K
- Linda VanduysColumbia$7K
- Aziz PetiwalaColumbia$7K
- Christina AdkinsColumbia$6K
- Brandon PalmerColumbia$6K
- Sarah Ford-SightlerColumbia$6K
- Jessica WheelerColumbia$6K
- Stacy SandersColumbia$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.