William Yarbrough, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Columbia, SCNPI 1912193087
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 26.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,937, more than ten times the $287 reported in 2019.
Across 121 payments — averaging $47.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$439
- Pfizer$254
- Atricure, Inc.$201
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,36441%
- Food & beverage$3,41859%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $1,506 |
| Abbott | 12 | $1,257 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 25 | $1,086 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 22 | $439 |
| Pfizer | 19 | $254 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $201 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $186 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $122 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $80 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $61 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $54 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $48 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $45 |
| Merck | 2 | $40 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $37 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $12 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 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.
How this compares
$5,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 83 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 16 | $206 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in West Columbia
- Heather CurrierWest Columbia$23K
- Jeffrey TravisWest Columbia$5K
- Curtis QuinnCharleston$374K
- Marc KatzCharleston$265K
- Arman KilicCharleston$170K
- Barry GibneyCharleston$39K
- Jacob KlapperCharleston$38K
- John KelemenHilton Head Island$35K
- Kathryn EngelhartdtCharleston$33K
- Gautam BhatiaGreenville$31K
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.