Hand Surgery in South Carolina
47 providers, $358,004 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,706.
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 hand surgery clinicians in South Carolina
Across 41 hand surgery clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,234,315 in total — an average of $225,227 each, of which $208,081 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
- 1Dane DaleyCharleston$136,926
- 2James PriceMt Pleasant$24,250
- 3Jason DickherberSpartanburg$17,781
- 4Shea RayGreenville$13,180
- 5Sonya ClarkSpartanburg$11,579
- 6Seth BowmanColumbia$11,523
- 7Erica UmpierrezConway$11,460
- 8Kyle KokkoSummerville$10,161
- 9Benjamin SutkerFort Mill$8,673
- 10Sarah YannascoliCharleston$7,946
- 11Fiesky NunezGreenville$7,927
- 12Michelle O'BrienWest Columbia$7,897
- 13Michael PalmerGreenville$7,343
- 14Andrew CrossGreenville$7,060
- 15John GaytonConway$6,691
- 16Eric AngermeierMount Pleasant$6,613
- 17Mark MoodyGreenville$6,604
- 18Timothy BrownGreenville$6,258
- 19Gregory FaucherGreenville$5,755
- 20Marc TannerPiedmont$4,863
- 21James McFaddenLexington$4,594
- 22John SandersGreenville$4,403
- 23Daniel WartinbeeNorth Charleston$3,025
- 24Charles DalyCharleston$2,706
- 25Kimberly YoungCharleston$2,644
- 26Francis OwingsNorth Charleston$2,495
- 27Keith SantiagoNorth Charleston$2,464
- 28Jon DevriesNorth Charleston$2,137
- 29David FultonColumbia$2,005
- 30Earl McFaddenColumbia$1,839
- 31Andrea GaleWest Columbia$1,588
- 32James McIntoshWest Columbia$1,242
- 33Seraphin MillonGreenville$1,216
- 34Reginald BrookerCharleston$1,139
- 35Timothy DewGreenville$1,004
- 36John ErnstCharleston$614
- 37John MacilwaineCharleston$596
- 38William MuirheadCharleston$398
- 39Michael GreenColumbia$321
- 40Robert LeakMyrtle Beach$316
- 41John WalshColumbia$215
- 42David EvermanMyrtle Beach$191
- 43John KingGreenwood$180
- 44Walter BatsonGreenville$112
- 45Jerrold BuckalooOrangeburg$35
- 46Michael UginoColumbia$22
- 47Robert MooreFlorence$14