Surgical Oncology in South Carolina
18 providers, $134,324 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 surgical oncology clinicians in South Carolina
Across 15 surgical oncology clinicians in South Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,334,978 in total — an average of $88,999 each, of which $88,999 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
- 1Steven TrochaGreenville$56,848
- 2Andrea AbbottCharleston$37,522
- 3Brian McKinleyGreenville$13,106
- 4Bernardo Franssen CanovasCharleston$10,320
- 5Daniel KirchoffCharleston$4,348
- 6Kevin ChoongColumbia$2,479
- 7Jeffrey SuttonCharleston$2,178
- 8Chukwuemeka ObioraColumbia$2,164
- 9David MahviCharleston$1,388
- 10Bernice HuangCharleston$1,278
- 11Julian KimColumbia$1,112
- 12Alisa BlumenthalerCharleston$486
- 13Timothy YeatmanSpartanburg$486
- 14Nancy DemoreCharleston$158
- 15Katherine OstapoffWest Columbia$139
- 16Rochelle RingerCharleston$135
- 17Mark LockettCharleston$121
- 18Jennifer GnerlichWest Columbia$58