Pulmonary Disease in South Carolina
192 providers, $6,678,485 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,769.
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 pulmonary disease clinicians in South Carolina
Across 149 pulmonary disease clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $19,680,595 in total — an average of $132,085 each, of which $123,709 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
- 1Abhijit RavalAnderson$1,977,603
- 2Richard BoganColumbia$1,070,710
- 3Joseph BosciaSpartanburg$701,106
- 4Patrick FlumeCharleston$418,040
- 5Sean CallahanGreenville$321,003
- 6Laura HerpelColumbia$254,259
- 7Gerard SilvestriCharleston$254,116
- 8Arun AdlakhaRock Hill$183,718
- 9Jake KriegmdColumbia$111,694
- 10Mark MaysonColumbia$85,574
- 11Kenneth WaltersAnderson$80,526
- 12Vinod JonaFlorence$78,182
- 13Karla Cruz MorelColumbia$73,912
- 14Gregory FeldmanColumbia$72,673
- 15Lorie LoremanFlorence$62,414
- 16Denise Gabrielle SeseCharleston$51,287
- 17Timothy WhelanCharleston$40,659
- 18Thomas KaelinN Charleston$34,699
- 19Abbas MansourEasley$31,843
- 20Marc JudsonCharleston$28,037
- 21Farhan SiddiquiSpartanburg$24,452
- 22Charles ThompsonAnderson$24,126
- 23Desmond YoungMurrells Inlet$20,661
- 24John HugginsCharleston$18,445
- 25Leslie WilkeN Charleston$17,932
- 26Carlton CauthenColumbia$16,533
- 27John Patrick TejadaGreenwood$16,074
- 28John CoxCharleston$16,043
- 29Sola KimN Charleston$15,106
- 30Jared IntaphanNorth Charleston$14,958
- 31Melissa MiaraLoris$14,274
- 32Daniel Lo VerdeGreenville$13,849
- 33Francis DayritWest Columbia$13,669
- 34Kevin DineenLittle River$13,049
- 35Nancy PatelClinton$13,038
- 36Adam FoxCharleston$12,849
- 37Michael KasterGreenville$12,594
- 38John RuckerNorth Charleston$12,549
- 39David ErbSpartanburg$12,074
- 40William GhentWest Columbia$12,050
- 41Michael SpandorferCharleston$11,588
- 42Alan CohenMyrtle Beach$11,553
- 43Leonard LimGreenwood$11,102
- 44Michael MarshallWest Columbia$10,639
- 45Liang ZhaColumbia$10,443
- 46Todd GandyColumbia$10,432
- 47Abhijit MahalingashettyLittle River$10,284
- 48Charles FogartySpartanburg$10,022
- 49Syed MalikAnderson$9,929
- 50David HandshoeSummerville$9,771
- 51Milica AnticMyrtle Beach$9,749
- 52Raymond LewisGreenwood$9,661
- 53John DanielsHilton Head$9,417
- 54Rachana KrishnaCharleston$9,138
- 55Matthew VarnerColumbia$9,138
- 56Thomas ChandlerMurrells Inlet$9,095
- 57Emerald Rose BranchAnderson$7,889
- 58Ezzat El BayoumiGreenville$7,802
- 59Azim SurkaGreenville$7,657
- 60Miroslav ZotovicAiken$7,285