Has Timothy Kelly, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,718 in general payments to Timothy Kelly, MD across 34 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 Timothy Kelly, 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 Timothy Kelly, 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.

Timothy Kelly, MD

Otolaryngology · Rock Hill, SCNPI 1689731085

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.4% of the total across 34 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi at 24.0% of the total.

$1,718in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $50.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Sanofi$413
AstraZeneca$267
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$194
Medtronic$172
GSK$147
Optinose US, Inc.$112
plus $415 from 8 others

$99,508in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $99,508 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

GSK$100K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,67397%
Education$453%

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
Sanofi	12	$413
AstraZeneca	3	$267
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$194
Medtronic	2	$172
GSK	2	$147
Optinose US, Inc.	2	$112
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$110
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$108
Neurent Medical Limited	2	$82
Stryker	1	$45
Alcon	1	$23
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$16
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	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.

How this compares

$1,718 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 180 otolaryngology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,556

Medicare patients

490

Services billed

1,221

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
Ipratropium Bromide	100	$2,958
Mometasone Furoate	25	$895
Fluticasone Propionate	51	$769
Cefdinir	20	$338
Famotidine	18	$266
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	34	$265
Ofloxacin	16	$263
Mupirocin	33	$238
Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid	12	$83
Levothyroxine Sodium	15	$83
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	15	$53
Prednisone	23	$47
Cephalexin	11	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Rock Hill

Young Jae ByunRock Hill$5K
Mark AbramsRock Hill$3K
Shaun NguyenCharleston$973K
Rodney SchlosserCharleston$382K
Zachary SolerCharleston$67K
Peter HorwichNorth Charleston$33K
Eugene BrownCharleston$28K
Jason NewmanCharleston$26K
Joshua HornigCharleston$25K
Ashli OrourkeCharleston$21K

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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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