Critical Care Medicine in South Carolina
93 providers, $1,414,280 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $369.
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 critical care medicine clinicians in South Carolina
Across 76 critical care medicine clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $5,730,905 in total — an average of $75,407 each, of which $74,362 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
- 1Charlton StrangeCharleston$204,587
- 2William AlleyneRock Hill$198,867
- 3Rahul ArgulaCharleston$185,523
- 4James CarswellCharleston$158,735
- 5Daniel HerrHilton Head Island$150,743
- 6Hafez HayekConway$137,523
- 7Nicholas FoxCharleston$87,615
- 8Nasir AwanGreenville$53,786
- 9Christopher GilbertCharleston$44,365
- 10Ikenna OnyebuekeSpartanburg$34,192
- 11Rico Vicente MendozaSpartanburg$22,263
- 12John ClarkSpartanburg$17,679
- 13Wilson SmithSpartanburg$17,179
- 14Gregory SquiresCharleston$13,868
- 15John MitchellCharleston$9,568
- 16Steven TempletonColumbia$6,166
- 17Ahmad BootaGreenville$5,913
- 18Luca PaolettiCharleston$5,463
- 19Jennings NestorCharleston$5,408
- 20Charles MullenGreenville$5,209
- 21Snigdha SharmaConway$4,925
- 22Tatsiana BeikoCharleston$3,703
- 23Ami VaidyaConway$3,628
- 24Renuka RajagopalSumter$3,575
- 25Chidinma EjikemeLittle River$3,027
- 26Rohan AryaWest Columbia$2,674
- 27Manuel IzquierdoSimpsonville$2,171
- 28Jay KirkhamColumbia$1,951
- 29Linda WilkersonColumbia$1,923
- 30Matthew DayWest Columbia$1,801
- 31Imran SiddiqiLoris$1,697
- 32Stephen SexauerCharleston$1,582
- 33Stuart ReynoldsSpartanburg$1,364
- 34Tal KlatchkoCharleston$1,299
- 35Calla ChowOrangeburg$1,298
- 36Jason GunnCharleston$864
- 37Melissa PalmerGreenville$844
- 38Ryan LapointeSpartanburg$832
- 39Andrew GoodwinCharleston$800
- 40Jacquelyn BuhmeyerGreenville$773
- 41Scott StockholmWest Columbia$756
- 42Connor KikerWest Columbia$714
- 43Absar MirzaGreenville$528
- 44John SharpGreenville$507
- 45Hanh TruongFlorence$503
- 46David SchriftColumbia$433
- 47Farrah ThompsonFlorence$369
- 48Louis MoyerWest Columbia$322
- 49Marie PolyniceGreenville$286
- 50Carol ChoeWest Columbia$267
- 51William OwensColumbia$265
- 52Johnette TouchberryFlorence$259
- 53Abhishek MattaLancaster$237
- 54Rishi PatelCharleston$229
- 55Marcus TedderFlorence$220
- 56Rhett DodgeGreenville$186
- 57Segee HolleyFlorence$184
- 58Joeresty AbelidaGreenville$175
- 59Chijioke OfocheFlorence$172
- 60Wayne HollingerGreenville$172