Victor Amato, MD
Gastroenterology · Lancaster, SCNPI 1053325076
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 127 payments — averaging $15.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$941
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$408
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$108
- Johnson & Johnson$72
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$72
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$57
- plus $248 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$191%
- Food & beverage$1,88399%
- Education$50%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 68 | $941 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 25 | $408 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 7 | $108 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $72 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Gilead | 2 | $31 |
| Merck | 2 | $26 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 259 gastroenterology 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.
Other gastroenterology in Lancaster
- Vimal AminLancaster$14K
- James KoppAnderson$2.3M
- Erin ForsterCharleston$2M
- Suzy KimGreenville$1.5M
- Narayanachar MuraliOrangeburg$1.4M
- Brett van Leer GreenbergSummerville$1.1M
- Edward KimbroughColumbia$1M
- Gary AbramsGreenville$925K
- Mark DeleggeCharleston$578K
- Matthew BarnesGreenville$565K
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.