RxDoctor Payments Data

Thyra Maltese, PA

Physician Assistant · Summerville, SCNPI 1861938490

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,564 of the $12,354 with a category attached, or 77.4%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sobi, Inc at 24.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,560 and has fallen 76.2% since, to $1,322 in 2025. Among physician assistant 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.

$12,354in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 478 payments — averaging $25.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sobi, Inc$3K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Amgen$1K
  • Lilly USA, LLC$810
  • AstraZeneca$715
  • plus $3K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,31819%
  • Travel & lodging$4083%
  • Food & beverage$9,56477%
  • Education$631%

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

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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.

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

$12,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$90,265
Medicare patients
423
Services billed
3,951

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept17$154,117
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept22$133,116
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol19$120,122
BenlystaBelimumab11$49,142
OtezlaApremilast12$46,674
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate217$10,366
Leflunomide96$5,926
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium240$4,279
Pregabalin48$2,455
Mycophenolate Mofetil26$2,410
Sulfasalazine35$1,106
Azathioprine35$1,049
Diclofenac Sodium12$1,032
Celecoxib15$954
Prednisone145$870

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$682$120,12219 claims
GSKBenlysta$392$49,14211 claims
AmgenOtezla$1,152$46,67412 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,852 physician assistant providers in South Carolina.

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