William Sawyer, MD
Family Medicine · Saluda, SCNPI 1841242146
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 352 payments — averaging $15.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AbbVie$503
- Bayer$427
- AstraZeneca$406
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$317
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$254
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,32399%
- Education$301%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 106 | $1,254 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 46 | $503 |
| Bayer | 18 | $427 |
| AstraZeneca | 23 | $406 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $317 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 14 | $254 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 14 | $221 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 12 | $212 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 13 | $202 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 8 | $191 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 7 | $145 |
| Amgen | 9 | $138 |
| Novartis | 8 | $137 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $95 |
| Abbott | 5 | $94 |
| GSK | 5 | $87 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $80 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $67 |
| Merck | 3 | $54 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 3 | $45 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $20 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Organon | 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.
- Kerendia$125
How this compares
$5,353 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,153 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 435 | $328,741 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 81 | $139,843 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 47 | $58,911 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 40 | $34,698 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 13 | $31,424 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 39 | $26,477 |
| Toujeo Max SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 12 | $20,166 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 22 | $15,435 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 15 | $14,348 |
| Valsartan | 367 | $13,839 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 14 | $12,885 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 56 | $12,659 |
| Soliqua 100-33Insulin Glargine/Lixisenatide | 14 | $11,736 |
| TrintellixVortioxetine Hydrobromide | 18 | $11,705 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 12 | $9,841 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $80 | $328,741435 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $1,254 | $139,84381 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $54 | $58,91147 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Humalog Mix 75-25 | $202 | $36,72526 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $221 | $34,69840 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $87 | $31,97651 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Namzaric | $503 | $19,24830 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Brilinta | $406 | $19,05334 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $137 | $15,43522 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33 | $254 | $11,73614 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Trintellix | $212 | $11,70518 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimTradjenta | $95 | $8,16316 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 2,153 family medicine providers in South Carolina.
Other family medicine in Saluda
- Cayce TangemanGoose Creek$8.4M
- Jeremy AckermannMoncks Corner$7.6M
- Kelly MoralesNorth Charleston$6.5M
- William ByarsGreer$4.8M
- James FranklinGreenville$3.5M
- Stephen GrubbLittle River$3.4M
- Jeffrey HarrisGreenville$3.4M
- Shannon ConradN Charleston$3.3M
- Tom ChristensenLittle River$3.1M
- Edward NewtonCharleston$3M
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.