Virgilio George, MD
Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1063538098
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $13,300 of the $19,051 with a category attached, or 69.8%. AbbVie accounts for 76.2% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,623 and has fallen 95.8% since, to $703 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 57 payments — averaging $334.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$15K
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- KCI USA, Inc.$398
- Johnson & Johnson$387
- TELA Bio, Inc.$358
- Solventum Corporation$306
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$13,30070%
- Travel & lodging$1,0195%
- Food & beverage$3,84520%
- Education$8875%
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) | 13 | $14,524 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $1,349 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 5 | $398 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 9 | $387 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 4 | $358 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $306 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $282 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $218 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $163 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $119 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $115 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $87 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $86 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $55 |
| Teleflex LLC | 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.
- STRATTICE$14,165
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,323
- PREVENA$535
- V.A.C. VERAFLO$306
- Echelon Flex$282
- CYTAL$237
- VAC VERAFLO$213
- Bair Hugger$169
- 3M Ioban$169
- Restrata Wound Matrix$157
- Axonics$146
- Phasix Mesh$142
- V.A.C. ULTA$137
- Ovitex$134
- Irrisept$115
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$113
- SURGIMEND$107
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$106
- HemoBlast Bellows$100
How this compares
$19,051 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 553 surgery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 23 | $439 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 75 | $413 |
| Metronidazole | 76 | $158 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 52 | $84 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Charleston
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- Steven KahnCharleston$197K
- Nicolas PopeCharleston$59K
- Bryan ThomasCharleston$19K
- Ahmad AlqassiehCharleston$16K
- Walter BlessingCharleston$15K
- David McCabeCharleston$15K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
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.