Optometry in South Carolina
13 providers, $0 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 optometry clinicians in South Carolina
Across 13 optometry clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $173,317 in total — an average of $13,332 each, of which $13,332 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
- 1Heather Augustin-GaudiosoLancaster$0
- 2Steve ChandlerBelton$0
- 3Edwin MitchellHartsville$0
- 4Mark LambrechtBeaufort$0
- 5Trevor KleinSpartanburg$0
- 6Henry FranklinWalterboro$0
- 7James McDowellKershaw$0
- 8Molly ButeColumbia$0
- 9Colleen HennellyNorth Charleston$0
- 10Mary WheelerCharleston$0
- 11Stephen PowellOrangeburg$0
- 12Cynthia YeagerGreenville$0
- 13Gill ThomasClinton$0