Surgery of the Hand in South Carolina
15 providers, $88,963 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 surgery of the hand clinicians in South Carolina
Across 11 surgery of the hand clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,078,082 in total — an average of $188,917 each, of which $161,048 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
- 1Manoucher TavanaCharleston$28,840
- 2Nicholas WhiteFlorence$15,983
- 3Milton ArmstrongCharleston$10,454
- 4Mirsad MujadzicColumbia$10,000
- 5Muamer MujadzicSumter$8,258
- 6John McFaddenCharleston$5,649
- 7Jason ClarkCharleston$3,335
- 8Lawrence RudisillGreenville$2,035
- 9Christopher LittsFlorence$1,934
- 10David LukowskiLittle River$1,372
- 11Jesse LewisMurrells Inlet$798
- 12Gerald ShealyCharleston$152
- 13Daniel FalconSpartanburg$67
- 14John NewkirkWest Columbia$46
- 15James EssmanSpartanburg$40