Medical Doctor Program year 2023 Reported 2019–2023 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Cynthia Strout

North Charleston, SC Medical Doctor

NPI 1578690194 CMS profile 1379352

4920 Ohear Ave, North Charleston, SC 29405

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General payments

$2,396

18 records reported · program years 2019–2023

Research payments

$8,666

Paid to them · 9 records reported · program years 2019–2023

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$23,065,278 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2024

Through program year 2023, Cynthia Strout of North Charleston, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,396 across 18 general payments and $8,666 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $23,065,278 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2023 Research $3,011 3
2020 General $955 8
2020 Research $3,557 5
2019 General $1,441 10
2019 Research $2,098 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Cynthia Strout
  • South Carolina median
  • Middle half of South Carolina
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Cynthia Strout were reported at $0. Among 17,818 South Carolina profiles paid that year, the median was $187 and the middle half received between $55 and $659.

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Year Cynthia Strout South Carolina median Middle half National median
2019 $1,441 $198 $57–$705 $163
2020 $955 $123 $36–$406 $114
2021 $0 $151 $42–$514 $132
2022 $0 $166 $47–$606 $149
2023 $0 $188 $54–$641 $160
2024 $0 $182 $53–$645 $164
2025 $0 $187 $55–$659 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $2,396 18 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Travel and Lodging $1,891 8 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $504 10 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. V114 $1,441 10 payments
  2. GARDASIL 9 $955 8 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2023
  1. Eli Lilly and Company $4,864 5 payments
  2. Pfizer Inc. $3,011 3 payments
  3. Eli Lilly Export S.A. Puerto Rico Branch $790 1 payment

Records

27 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2023

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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