Has Tru Dang received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,475 in general payments to Tru Dang across 163 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 Tru Dang 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 Tru Dang 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.

Tru Dang

Vascular Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1760006316

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.7%), grants and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 33.9% of the total.

$17,475in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 163 payments — averaging $107.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$6K
Penumbra, Inc.$4K
Cook Medical LLC$2K
Boston Scientific$2K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
Shockwave Medical, Inc$512
plus $1K from 9 others

What the payments were for

Grants$4,34225%
Travel & lodging$4,02923%
Food & beverage$7,81345%
Education$1,2927%

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
Medtronic	17	$5,916
Penumbra, Inc.	16	$4,403
Cook Medical LLC	81	$1,914
Boston Scientific	13	$1,831
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	15	$1,421
Shockwave Medical, Inc	3	$512
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$279
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	3	$250
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	2	$222
Baxter Healthcare	1	$190
Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.	3	$154
Mimedx Group, Inc.	3	$143
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$137
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$60
Intuitive Surgical	1	$42

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

$17,475 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	39	$151
Oxycodone Hcl	15	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other vascular surgery in Charleston

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Kristian HochbergCharleston$106K
Zachary ArthursCharleston$84K
Jean Marie RuddyCharleston$54K
Adam KeeferCharleston$32K
Richard ShiCharleston$20K
Matthew AndersonCharleston$18K
Adam TaniousCharleston$16K
Sean HislopCharleston$15K
John GedneyCharleston$12K

See the full list for South Carolina →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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