Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Paul Plante

Internal Medicine Columbia, SC Medical Doctor

NPI 1508825464 CMS profile 23029

1750 Laurel St, Columbia, SC 29201

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General payments

$7,900

505 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Paul Plante of Columbia, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,900 across 505 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 93rd percentile of Internal Medicine profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $965 59
2024 General $1,050 62
2023 General $1,161 76
2022 General $1,123 68
2021 General $1,403 96
2020 General $1,060 65
2019 General $1,138 79

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Paul Plante
  • Internal Medicine median
  • Middle half of Internal Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Paul Plante were reported at $965. Among 52,115 Internal Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $156 and the middle half received between $47 and $551.

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Year Paul Plante Internal Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $1,138 $159 $48–$570 $163
2020 $1,060 $119 $33–$402 $114
2021 $1,403 $135 $37–$521 $132
2022 $1,123 $141 $42–$496 $149
2023 $1,161 $149 $45–$519 $160
2024 $1,050 $154 $47–$537 $164
2025 $965 $156 $47–$551 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,029 63 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $958 84 payments
  3. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $458 28 payments
  4. Amgen Inc. $442 29 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $398 26 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $394 20 payments
  7. Lilly USA, LLC $383 25 payments
  8. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $302 17 payments
  9. Insulet Corporation $292 18 payments
  10. Novo Nordisk Inc $286 15 payments
  11. Other $2,957 180 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $7,803 503 payments
  2. Education $75 1 payment
  3. Consulting Fee $22 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARXIGA $802 48 payments
  2. UBRELVY $385 31 payments
  3. JARDIANCE Diabetes $373 23 payments
  4. VRAYLAR $349 40 payments
  5. Omnipod $292 18 payments
  6. TRINTELLIX $261 14 payments
  7. JARDIANCE Diabetes $236 14 payments
  8. XARELTO $221 15 payments
  9. QULIPTA $217 14 payments
  10. LEQVIO $201 9 payments
  11. Other $6,902 435 payments

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

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 132 drugs

Part D claims

6,412

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$866,467

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

26.1%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 117 $172,693
Austedo Deutetrabenazine Brand 12 $102,265
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 73 $86,169
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 42 $55,449
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 55 $50,989
Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab Brand 37 $33,843
Breztri Aerosphere Budesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol Brand 45 $30,432
Omnipod 5 Dexg7g6 Pods (Gen 5) Insulin Pump Cart,auto,bt,g6/7 Brand 35 $27,114
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 17 $26,778
Myrbetriq Mirabegron Brand 35 $26,704

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 132 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 27 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $58
  • Lilly USA, LLC $42
$100 42 —
FARXIGA
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $96
$96 73 —
VRAYLAR
  • AbbVie, Inc. $75
$75 — —
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $72
$72 — —
LEQVIO
  • Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $47
$47 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

505 reported

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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 2025

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

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