Who Paid My Doc
William Edwards
Rheumatology Summerville, SC Medical Doctor
NPI 1952409997 CMS profile 361376
2001 2Nd Ave Ste 201, Summerville, SC 29486
General payments
$1,290,013
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$11,535,985
Research they led as principal investigator
$573,347
Through program year 2025, William Edwards of Summerville, SC is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,290,013 across 53 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $573,347 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $11,535,985 across 6 holdings.
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.
General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
12 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $450,000 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $204,121 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $310,712 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $222,451 | 1 | |
| 2021 | General | $101,981 | 1 | |
| 2019 | General | $749 | 48 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $4,059,310 | 1 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $2,303,679 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $2,684,879 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $1,838,986 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $627,131 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $22,000 | 1 |
Beside peers
- William Edwards
- Rheumatology median
- Middle half of Rheumatology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to William Edwards were reported at $450,000. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.
Show as a table
| Year | William Edwards | Rheumatology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $749 | $744 | $153–$2,687 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $462 | $98–$2,027 | $114 |
| 2021 | $101,981 | $531 | $101–$2,153 | $132 |
| 2022 | $222,451 | $627 | $125–$2,303 | $149 |
| 2023 | $310,712 | $741 | $145–$2,524 | $160 |
| 2024 | $204,121 | $830 | $166–$2,660 | $164 |
| 2025 | $450,000 | $903 | $171–$2,775 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
53 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.