Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Dr. Jason William Cotter, MD

Individual provider Surgery Physician · NPI 1801859640

Dr. Jason William Cotter, MD practises General Surgery in Bluffton, South Carolina. Graduated from Hahnemann University College of Medicine in 1994, 32 years ago. Practices with Hilton Head Regional Physician Group LLC, a 112-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Years since qualifying
32
Trained at
Hahnemann University College of Medicine
Licensed in
NC, SC
In the registry since
2006
Specialties on file
2
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MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

75 Baylor Dr Ste 290
Bluffton, SC 29910-8965 Not confirmed with CMS for 12 years — call before visiting
Phone: (843) 705-8919
Fax: (843) 705-7024
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Specialties & licences

Surgery Physician (primary) Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence TL31669 (SC)
Surgery Physician Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence 200300326 (NC)

Record details

NPI number1801859640
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedApril 11, 2006
Last updated in NPPESJuly 16, 2014

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyGENERAL SURGERY
Medical schoolHAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
Graduated 1994 (32 years in practice)
Group practice Hilton Head Regional Physician Group Llc — 112 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Removal of tissue 1,162 times · 99th percentile
Removal of skin lesions 477 times · 86th percentile
Colonoscopy 16 times · 45th percentile
Hernia repair - groin (open) 1–10 times
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 1–10 times
Skin biopsy 1–10 times
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

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.

Medicare patients324
Services billed 3,447 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age78

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.

Food and Beverage $73 3 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Consulting Fee $30 1 payment

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.

  • Beaufort County Memorial Hospital Hospital · Beaufort, SC
  • Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center Hospital · Hilton Head Island, SC · listed as Hilton Head Medical Center LLC
  • Coastal Carolina Hospital Hospital · Hardeeville, SC
  • Amedisys Home Health Of Bluffton Home health agency · Bluffton, SC
  • Aveanna Home Health Home health agency · Hardeeville, SC
  • Centerwell Home Health Home health agency · Walterboro, SC

Colleagues at Hilton Head Regional Physician Group LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 112 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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