Thomas Byrne, MD
Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1972617520
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 56 payments — averaging $228.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Johnson & Johnson$475
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$282
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$218
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$203
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$172
- plus $713 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,0158%
- Food & beverage$3,17025%
- Education$8,63767%
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 | 28 | $10,760 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $475 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $282 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $218 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $203 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $150 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $144 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $107 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $89 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $86 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $43 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $42 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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
$12,822 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 553 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lactated RingersRinger's Solution,lactated | 11 | $886 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Charleston
- Steven KahnCharleston$433K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John McGillicuddyCharleston$96K
- Nicolas PopeCharleston$71K
- Lucas WiterCharleston$44K
- Katherine MorganCharleston$29K
- Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
- Virgilio GeorgeCharleston$19K
- Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
- Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
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.