Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of August 10, 2026.

Dr. Phillip George Esce, MD

Individual provider Neurological Surgery Physician · NPI 1457322406

Dr. Phillip George Esce, MD practises Neurosurgery in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Graduated from University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1996, 30 years ago. Practices with Spartanburg Medical Center, a 1,067-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in South Carolina.

Years since qualifying
30
Trained at
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Licensed in
SC
In the registry since
2006
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

303 E Wood St
Spartanburg, SC 29303-3020
Phone: (864) 560-4002
Fax: (864) 560-4003
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Pin is approximate — placed at the ZIP-code centre, not the exact door.

Specialties & licences

Neurological Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207T00000X · Licence 20970 (SC)

Record details

NPI number1457322406
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJanuary 29, 2006
Last updated in NPPESApril 3, 2025
Certification dateApril 3, 2025

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyNEUROSURGERY
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY
Graduated 1996 (30 years in practice)
Group practice Spartanburg Medical Center — 1067 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Laminectomy or laminotomy (partial removal of spine bones) 110 times · 95th percentile
Spinal fusion 139 times · 82nd percentile

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients717
Services billed 3,209 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Royalty or License $5,533 1 payment · paid for the use of something the clinician owns or invented, such as a patent; not a fee for care or for time
Consulting Fee $1,500 2 payments
Food and Beverage $507 8 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at Spartanburg Medical Center

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1067 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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