William Richardson, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1215000468
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,143 of the $5,777 with a category attached, or 71.7%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 38.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,707 and has fallen 84.1% since, to $271 in 2025.
Across 189 payments — averaging $30.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$1K
- Abbott$979
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$258
- Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$99
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$83
- plus $646 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,63428%
- Food & beverage$4,14372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 61 | $2,236 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 30 | $1,477 |
| Abbott | 45 | $979 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 11 | $258 |
| Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 2 | $83 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $81 |
| Painteq LLC | 3 | $73 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $61 |
| Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Revance Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Flowonix Medical Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Intracept$991
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$879
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$215
- Proclaim IPG$109
How this compares
$5,777 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 38 interventional pain medicine providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 79 | $2,106 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 51 | $353 |
| Pregabalin | 29 | $295 |
| Cephalexin | 21 | $250 |
| Dantrolene Sodium | 12 | $204 |
| Gabapentin | 15 | $176 |
| Celecoxib | 13 | $117 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 11 | $78 |
| Nabumetone | 14 | $42 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $33 |
| Citalopram HbrCitalopram Hydrobromide | 15 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Mt Pleasant
- Mark NethertonMt Pleasant$102K
- Ryan NoblesMt Pleasant$43K
- Marion McMillanSeneca$89K
- Jason RosenbergMurrells Inlet$82K
- Justin HutchesonGreenville$23K
- Joshua BighamSpartanburg$14K
- David RoweBluffton$9K
- William DurrettAiken$8K
- Kenneth GrosslightWest Columbia$7K
- Phillip SuwanAiken$6K
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.