Addiction Medicine in South Carolina
11 providers, $6,729 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays addiction medicine clinicians in South Carolina
Across 4 addiction medicine clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $46,574 in total — an average of $11,643 each, of which $11,643 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Joshua HallSpartanburg$2,607
- 2Donald BartlettNorth Myrtle Beach$1,544
- 3Antigone ChildsSeneca$694
- 4Samuel ParishNorth Charleston$575
- 5William ScottPiedmont$349
- 6Diana ThorneColumbia$224
- 7Maureen BurdettRock Hill$221
- 8Joseph MarkowitzColumbia$182
- 9Chandra ReddySpartanburg$140
- 10Sam RossAnderson$104
- 11James McElmurraySpartanburg$88