RxDoctor Payments Data

Troy Ockerman, MD

Anesthesiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1710969449

Payments from drug & device makers

$515in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $42.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Avanos Medical$272
  • Abbott$93
  • Boston Scientific$65
  • Edwards Lifesciences$29
  • Livanova USA, Inc.$24
  • Convatec Inc.$17
  • plus $15 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$6012%
  • Food & beverage$45588%

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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20
24

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

$515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 609 anesthesiology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,505
Medicare patients
331
Services billed
441

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.

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