Has Ward Worthington, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,629 in general payments to Ward Worthington, MD across 37 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 Ward Worthington, 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 Ward Worthington, 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.

Ward Worthington, MD

Neurological Surgery · Florence, SCNPI 1952372138

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,421 of the $5,629 with a category attached, or 60.8%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 48.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,525 and has fallen 91.8% since, to $207 in 2025.

$5,629in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $152.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$3K
Spineart SA$1K
Medtronic$1K
Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.$311
Medical Investment Advisors LLC$32
Abbott$17

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,46926%
Travel & lodging$3,42161%
Food & beverage$73913%

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
Globus Medical(2 entities)	22	$2,710
Spineart SA	7	$1,469
Medtronic	4	$1,090
Zap Surgical Systems, Inc.	2	$311
Medical Investment Advisors LLC	1	$32
Abbott	1	$17

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

$5,629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 114 neurological surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$41,281

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

203

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	35	$1,128
Levetiracetam	13	$577
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	34	$411
Oxycodone Hcl	15	$192
Tramadol Hcl	33	$156
Lorazepam	34	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Florence

Andrew RheaFlorence$18K
Miranda HayworthFlorence$5K
Thomas HinesFlorence$3K
Alejandro SpiottaCharleston$894K
David JonesRock Hill$540K
Sabino DagostinoLadson$425K
Jan Vargas MachajGreenville$207K
Michael CowanRock Hill$184K
Jonathan LenaCharleston$110K
Adam BackSpartanburg$99K

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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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