Dollars for Docs

How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors

This database was last updated in October 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. Newer data is available at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments site.

South Carolina

South Carolina

Payment figures include all payments received during the 2018 calendar year.

Payments in 2018

Highest-Earning Doctors

Doctor City Payments
SOLOMON
KERRY SOLOMON

MT PLEASANT

$456K
MALETIC
VLADIMIR MALETIC

GREER

$445K
SHORE
NEAL SHORE

MYRTLE BEACH

$390K
JOHNSON
DONALD JOHNSON

MT PLEASANT

$350K
POLETTI
STEVEN POLETTI

MT PLEASANT

$350K
SMITH
REBECCA SMITH

FORT MILL

$281K
SHULER
MARSHALL SHULER

GREENVILLE

$266K
FRANKEL
BRUCE FRANKEL

CHARLESTON

$252K
SMITH
WILLIAM SMITH

COLUMBIA

$242K
SPIOTTA
ALEJANDRO SPIOTTA

CHARLESTON

$222K

Drugs & Devices

Beginning in 2016, the government began classifying products as drugs, devices, biologics or medical supplies. Below, you will see drugs (drugs and biologics) and devices (devices and medical supplies). The top 100 products, based on total dollar amount of payments, are displayed.

Top Drugs

Product Product Type Payments
VRAYLAR

drug

$337K
FARXIGA

drug

$290K
REPATHA

drug

$223K
ACTHAR

drug

$219K
EUCRISA

drug

$217K
HUMIRA

drug

$217K
XARELTO

drug

$205K
OTEZLA

drug

$191K
ENTRESTO

drug

$171K
VELPHORO

drug

$169K

Top Devices

Product Product Type Payments
RETAIN

device

$501K
VERACITY SURGICAL

device

$347K
TRIPLANAR FIXATION SYSTEM

device

$296K
RISE-L

device

$199K
DA VINCI SURGICAL SYSTEM

device

$176K
TECNIS 1-PIECE IOL

device

$162K
TECNIS 3-PIECE IOL

device

$159K
TECNIS SYMPHONY TORIC IOL

device

$156K
TECNIS SYMPHONY IOL

device

$156K
PULSERIDER

device

$143K

Note: We have made some effort to normalize the data and eliminate duplicates, but the data is primarily as it has been reported by the companies to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. To purchase the normalized data, please visit the ProPublica Data Store. If you spot an error, please let us know at [email protected].

This site includes data published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on June 28, 2019.