Has Vandit Sardana, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,280 in general payments to Vandit Sardana, MD across 47 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 Vandit Sardana, 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 Vandit Sardana, 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.

Vandit Sardana, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Port Royal, SCNPI 1104345594

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,714 of the $4,280 with a category attached, or 63.4%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 62.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $5,295.

$4,280in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $91.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$3K
Stryker$647
Smith+Nephew$580
Exactech, Inc.$255
Johnson & Johnson$102
Bioventus LLC$13

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,52036%
Food & beverage$2,71463%
Education$471%

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
Zimmer Biomet	30	$2,683
Stryker	6	$647
Smith+Nephew	7	$580
Exactech, Inc.	2	$255
Johnson & Johnson	1	$102
Bioventus LLC	1	$13

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

$4,280 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 30 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$479,304

Medicare patients

839

Services billed

23,939

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
Diclofenac Sodium	254	$6,740
Cephalexin	247	$2,038
Ondansetron Hcl	189	$1,722
Celecoxib	102	$1,365
Oxycodone Hcl	191	$1,135
Naproxen	50	$407
Tramadol Hcl	107	$374
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	30	$284
Doxycycline Hyclate	23	$223
Omeprazole	33	$214
Hydromorphone Hcl	34	$199
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	39	$182
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	24	$172
Amoxicillin	122	$152
Fluconazole	14	$127

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Port Royal

Richard FriedmanCharleston$691K
Justin BrothersMyrtle Beach$203K
Erik HansenCharleston$192K
John McCrossonMt Pleasant$176K
Josef EichingerCharleston$117K
Peter RamseyConway$59K
Matthew SteinCharleston$29K
Daniel DelgaizoBeaufort$25K
Frank ArmocidaGreer$23K
Stephen FinleyGreenville$23K

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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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