Laura Cristina Espinosa, MD

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.

Practises at

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

• Prisma Health Patewood Hospital Hospital · Greenville, SC · listed as Greenville Health System
• Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital Hospital · Greenville, SC · listed as Greenville Memorial Hospital
• Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital Hospital · Simpsonville, SC · listed as Prisma Health-Upstate
• Prisma Health Home Health-Upstate Home health agency · Greenville, SC · listed as Prisma Health-Upstate
• Prisma Health Laurens County Hospital Hospital · Clinton, SC
• Interim Healthcare Of The Upstate Home health agency · Greenville, SC

Colleagues at Prisma Health University Medical Group

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2446 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Louise Anne Alexander, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Greenville, SC
• Chassidy Balentine, NP Nurse Practitioner · Greenville, SC
• Weston Bettner, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Greenville, SC
• Preston Sherrod Linebaugh, PA-C Physician Assistant · Greenville, SC
• Dr. Erica Lynn Lowing, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Greenville, SC
• Meghan Weisen Martin, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Greenville, SC
• Angelo Perino Jr., MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Greenville, SC
• Joseph Gramling Praytor, MD Pediatrics Physician · Greenville, SC
• Elisabeth Russell, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Greenville, SC
• Katherine Mitchum Spinks, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Boiling Springs, SC
• Chad Charles Ward, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Clemson, SC
• Ngan Kim Ward Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Greenville, SC

Other providers in Simpsonville

• Dr. Jonathan Marshall Garber, DO

  Individual Hospitalist Physician · NPI 1780063875

  300 Scuffletown Rd, Simpsonville, SC 29681-7204 · (864) 522-1550

• Dr. Stephanie Robin Walker, MD

  Individual Hospitalist Physician · NPI 1700834363

  2801 Woodruff Rd Ste 101, Simpsonville, SC 29681-4807 · (864) 849-9170