Vesna Solheim, MD
Family Medicine · Murrells Inlet, SCNPI 1528043528
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $21.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$251
- AbbVie$218
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$141
- Novo Nordisk$139
- AstraZeneca$130
- Bayer$81
- plus $685 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,61398%
- Education$322%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 3 | $251 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $218 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $141 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $139 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $130 |
| Bayer | 5 | $81 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $73 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $72 |
| GSK | 3 | $62 |
| Amgen | 4 | $60 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $57 |
| Novartis | 3 | $53 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $41 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $33 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $11 |
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.
- XARACOLL$125
How this compares
$1,645 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,153 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 259 | $309,640 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 244 | $280,526 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 100 | $120,906 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 88 | $86,898 |
| EliquisApixaban | 76 | $86,064 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 47 | $71,798 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 34 | $42,045 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 25 | $39,946 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 30 | $39,131 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 40 | $36,724 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 61 | $34,914 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 30 | $24,517 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 51 | $22,197 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 23 | $16,601 |
| Humalog Kwikpen U-200Insulin Lispro | 18 | $14,801 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity | $43 | $367,424332 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $139 | $309,640259 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $130 | $125,431119 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $57 | $86,06476 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $62 | $47,31755 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $11 | $42,04534 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $73 | $39,94625 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $218 | $19,863118 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $41 | $12,11818 claims |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.Livalo | $12 | $11,40412 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 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Murrells Inlet
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Edward NewtonCharleston$3M
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.