Open Payments · South Carolina

What drug & device companies paid South Carolina doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $709M in payments to 30,704 South Carolina physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2024.

$709M
reported 2018–2024
30,704
physicians paid
$23,094
avg / physician
1,841
companies paying
$7M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays South Carolina doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2024 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
ModernaTX, Inc.$48M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$39M
PFIZER INC.$34M
Janssen Research & Development…$29M
Eli Lilly and Company$27M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$27M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$22M
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC.$21M
Amgen Inc.$20M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation$18M

Biggest recipients

South Carolina physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Smith William$7M
Shore Neal$4M
Turk Aquilla$3M
Maletic Vladimir$3M
Poletti Steven$3M
Johnson Donald$3M
Edgerton Colin$3M
Shuler Marshall$2M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Orthopaedic Surgery$15M
Rheumatology$13M
Internal Medicine$8M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spi…$8M
Dermatology$7M
Pulmonary Disease$7M
Neurological Surgery$7M
Psychiatry$7M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

30,704

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$709M

reported across 1,697,684 individual payments.

How South Carolina compares nationally

South Carolina ranks 27th of 51 for total reported payments, with $709M across 1,697,684 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 0.91% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $23,094 per recipient across 30,704 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 44% below the $41,481 national average (33rd of 51 per physician). The largest payer was ModernaTX, Inc. at $48M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Smith William, received $7M across 790 payments.

#27
of 51 — total payments
#33
of 51 — per physician
0.91%
of all U.S. payments

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