Neurological Surgery in South Carolina
114 providers, $3,240,165 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,843.
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 neurological surgery clinicians in South Carolina
Across 76 neurological surgery clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,489,402 in total — an average of $177,492 each, of which $177,454 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
- 1Alejandro SpiottaCharleston$894,104
- 2David JonesRock Hill$539,704
- 3Sabino DagostinoLadson$425,380
- 4Jan Vargas MachajGreenville$207,184
- 5Michael CowanRock Hill$183,578
- 6Jonathan LenaCharleston$109,957
- 7Adam BackSpartanburg$98,880
- 8Matthew NealCharleston$65,375
- 9Sumeer LalGreenwood$65,016
- 10Eugene GiddensMyrtle Beach$48,105
- 11Brett GunterWest Columbia$48,022
- 12Phillip EsceSpartanburg$32,361
- 13William RamboColumbia$28,855
- 14Erwin MangubatColumbia$28,690
- 15Christopher ChittumSpartanburg$27,850
- 16Ramin EskandariCharleston$21,571
- 17Patrick JowdyLancaster$20,242
- 18Jason HighsmithN Charleston$18,813
- 19Andrew RheaFlorence$18,215
- 20James WigintonGreenville$17,998
- 21Tyler SparksGreenville$15,786
- 22Troy DawleyWest Columbia$15,033
- 23Christie MinaGreenville$13,475
- 24Istvan TakacsCharleston$12,572
- 25Nathan RowlandCharleston$12,546
- 26Samuel AsanteGreenville$11,768
- 27Thomas AndersonMt Pleasant$10,725
- 28Nathan DavisColumbia$10,536
- 29Phillip HodgeGreenville$10,450
- 30Robert FlandrySpartanburg$10,292
- 31Robert StuartCharleston$10,064
- 32Michael KilburnGreenwood$9,934
- 33Malcolm EggartMurrells Inlet$9,070
- 34Clayton HaldemanCharleston$8,837
- 35Brian CuddyCharleston$8,587
- 36George KhouryCharleston$7,653
- 37Seth MolloyColumbia$7,450
- 38Roberta SefcikCharleston$6,905
- 39Matthew TrianoCharleston$6,675
- 40Brian SawayCharleston$6,596
- 41Karl LozanneColumbia$6,543
- 42Ahmad BaderColumbia$6,304
- 43James SmithMyrtle Beach$5,949
- 44Ward WorthingtonFlorence$5,629
- 45Miranda HayworthFlorence$5,471
- 46Sharon WebbGreenville$5,289
- 47Guilherme PortoCharleston$4,692
- 48Bertram RichterColumbia$4,658
- 49Aimee WeberCharleston$4,375
- 50Gabriel PhillipsMyrtle Beach$4,232
- 51Byron BaileyCharleston$3,492
- 52Roham MoftakharColumbia$3,423
- 53James DillonAiken$3,372
- 54Charles ToussaintWest Columbia$3,370
- 55Taylor GirolamoColumbia$3,332
- 56David SemenoffCharleston$3,296
- 57Earl TroupGreenville$2,843
- 58Jamie WilsonCharleston$2,827
- 59Thomas HinesFlorence$2,796
- 60Oluwaseun OmofoyeMurrells Inlet$2,561