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

Individual provider Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1518919828

Dr. Richard Ernest Mills, MD practises Internal Medicine in Mt Pleasant, South Carolina. Graduated from University of Miami, Lm Miller School of Medicine in 1985, 41 years ago. Practices with Roper Saint Francis Physicians Network, a 532-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in South Carolina.

Years since qualifying
41
Trained at
University of Miami, Lm Miller School of Medicine
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

180 Wingo Way Ste 306
Mt Pleasant, SC 29464-1810
Phone: (843) 884-1777
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Specialties & licences

Internal Medicine Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207R00000X · Licence SC12886 (SC)

Record details

NPI number1518919828
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedMay 16, 2006
Last updated in NPPESDecember 17, 2024
Certification dateDecember 17, 2024

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyINTERNAL MEDICINE
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, LM MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 1985 (41 years in practice)
Group practice Roper Saint Francis Physicians Network — 532 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services
Practice locations3 on file with Medicare

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.

Removal of skin lesions 1–10 times
Removal or shaving of skin growth 1–10 times

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 patients519
Services billed 5,157 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age76

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.

Food and Beverage $1,771 98 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Travel and Lodging $154 2 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference

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.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

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

  • Bon Secours-St Francis Xavier Hospital Hospital · Charleston, SC · listed as Bon Secours St Francis Xavier Hospital, Inc
  • Mount Pleasant Hospital Hospital · Mount Pleasant, SC · listed as Rsf Mt Pleasant Hospital
  • Roper Hospital Hospital · Charleston, SC · listed as Roper Hospital, Inc
  • Roper St Francis Hospital-Berkeley Inc Hospital · Summerville, SC
  • Musc Medical Center Hospital · Charleston, SC
  • Amedisys Home Health Of Charleston East Home health agency · Charleston, SC
  • Interim Healthcare Home health agency · North Charleston, SC
  • Roper-St. Francis Home Health Home health agency · Charleston, SC

Colleagues at Roper Saint Francis Physicians Network

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 532 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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