Vanessa Hinson, MD
Neurology · Charleston, SCNPI 1114967908
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $5,700 of the $6,169 with a category attached, or 92.4%. AbbVie accounts for 95.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 10 payments — averaging $616.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$6K
- Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$212
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$88
Across 77 payments — averaging $19,367 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.
- UCB SA$891K
- Biogen$347K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$165K
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC$85K
- AbbVie$4K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,70092%
- Food & beverage$4698%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $5,869 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 2 | $212 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $88 |
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
$6,169 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 270 neurology providers in South Carolina.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RytaryCarbidopa/Levodopa | 121 | $322,372 |
| AustedoDeutetrabenazine | 13 | $191,318 |
| NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate | 11 | $153,129 |
| IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate | 19 | $124,789 |
| GocovriAmantadine Hcl | 27 | $116,585 |
| NourianzIstradefylline | 42 | $104,997 |
| XadagoSafinamide Mesylate | 16 | $24,612 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 266 | $17,673 |
| Rasagiline Mesylate | 12 | $6,076 |
| Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa | 102 | $5,187 |
| AmantadineAmantadine Hcl | 46 | $3,761 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 70 | $1,684 |
| Clonazepam | 145 | $1,077 |
| Baclofen | 33 | $1,047 |
| Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl | 11 | $941 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCRytary | $88 | $322,372121 claims |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc.Nourianz | $212 | $104,99742 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 70th percentile of 270 neurology providers in South Carolina.
Other neurology in Charleston
- Robert AdamsCharleston$204K
- Sarah BreevoortCharleston$90K
- Tanya TuranCharleston$77K
- Katherine RuzhanskyCharleston$52K
- Jonathan HalfordCharleston$48K
- Andrew KeeganCharleston$48K
- Aljoeson WalkerCharleston$35K
- Hamid BahadoriCharleston$29K
- Bruce OvbiageleCharleston$27K
- Andrew AmeriCharleston$24K
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.