Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Michael C Foster, MD

Individual provider Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1780625269

Michael C Foster, MD practises Interventional Cardiology in Columbia, South Carolina. Graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986, 40 years ago. Practices with MUSC Community Physicians, a 1,339-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in South Carolina.

Years since qualifying
40
Trained at
Indiana University School of Medicine
Licensed in
SC
In the registry since
2006
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

2001 Laurel St
Columbia, SC 29204-1018
Phone: (803) 254-3278
Fax: (803) 929-3256
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Specialties & licences

Interventional Cardiology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RI0011X · Licence 12914 (SC)
Cardiovascular Disease Physician Taxonomy 207RC0000X · Licence 12914 (SC)

Record details

NPI number1780625269
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Credentials MD
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedJune 8, 2006
Last updated in NPPESAugust 24, 2021
Certification dateAugust 24, 2021

Medicare enrollment

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

Medicare specialtyINTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY
Also practisesCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)
Medical schoolINDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 1986 (40 years in practice)
Group practice Musc Community Physicians — 1339 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations2 on file with Medicare

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.

Coronary angioplasty and stenting 60 times · 87th percentile
Pacemaker insertion or repair 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 patients886
Services billed 4,919 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age76

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 $2,533 40 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Travel and Lodging $1,146 8 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference

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.

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Practises at

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

  • Kershawhealth Hospital · Camden, SC
  • Newberry County Memorial Hospital Hospital · Newberry, SC
  • Musc Health Chester Medical Center Hospital · Chester, SC
  • Musc Health Columbia Medical Center Downtown Hospital · Columbia, SC
  • Musc Medical Center Hospital · Charleston, SC

Colleagues at MUSC Community Physicians

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1339 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

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