Erik Conniff, PA-C

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.

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.

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.

Colleagues at Pain Specialists of Charleston

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 17 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Scott Eric Balogh, MD Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) · Augusta, GA
• Rebecca Chiles Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · North Charleston, SC
• Donna Flaherty, PA-C Physician Assistant · Pittsburgh, PA
• Claudia M Hafer Mental Health Counselor · Summerville, SC
• Sydney Burrell Johnson, PA-C Physician Assistant · North Charleston, SC
• Cary Johnstone, LPC Professional Counselor · North Charleston, SC
• Stefanie Ann Mauney, PA Medical Physician Assistant · North Charleston, SC
• Dr. Patricia Graham Myers, MD Neurology Physician · Charleston, SC
• MS. Sierra Laster Roach, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant · North Charleston, SC
• Donald Schmechel, MD Neurology Physician · West Columbia, SC
• David Edward Stickler, MD Neurology Physician · North Charleston, SC
• Dr. Edward M. Tavel Jr., MD Anesthesiology Physician · Charleston, SC

Other providers in North Charleston

• Dr. Timothy Michael Zgleszewski, MD

  Individual Pain Medicine (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation) Physician · NPI 1609833516

  2679 Lake Park Dr, North Charleston, SC 29406-9100 · (843) 573-9997