William Ellison
Interventional Cardiology · Charleston, SCNPI 1356307318
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 189 payments — averaging $49.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$5K
- Heartflow, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$407
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$388
- Amgen$316
- Pfizer$264
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2786%
- Travel & lodging$52812%
- Food & beverage$3,57381%
- Education$311%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $4,911 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 7 | $1,155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 34 | $407 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 22 | $388 |
| Amgen | 18 | $316 |
| Pfizer | 18 | $264 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 11 | $218 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $196 |
| Novartis | 16 | $174 |
| Abbott | 3 | $140 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $126 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $125 |
| CMS Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $89 |
| Spacelabs Healthcare Inc | 1 | $71 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 3 | $51 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $49 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $44 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 2 | $37 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $31 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $31 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- FFRct$959
- LifeSPARC System$134
- Impella$126
- Watchman$125
- UPTRAVI$125
How this compares
$9,321 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 117 interventional cardiology providers in South Carolina.
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Other interventional cardiology in Charleston
- Daniel SteinbergCharleston$1.1M
- Lars RunquistCharleston$861K
- Matthew O'SteenCharleston$254K
- Anbukarasi MaranCharleston$201K
- John RhodesCharleston$124K
- Valerian FernandesCharleston$53K
- Scott WoodfieldCharleston$29K
- Jeffrey RiederCharleston$18K
- Varsha BandisodeCharleston$14K
- Nicholas AmorosoPawleys Island$1.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.