Ahmad Aulakh, DO
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1205365236
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,000 of the $1,631 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 77.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,346 and has fallen 83.2% since, to $226 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $1,631.
Across 21 payments — averaging $77.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Medtronic$132
- TELA Bio, Inc.$63
- AbbVie$40
- Braintree Laboratories, Inc.$37
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$25
- plus $79 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$22614%
- Food & beverage$40425%
- Education$1,00061%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $1,255 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $132 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $40 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $11 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$220
How this compares
$1,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 35 colon & rectal surgery providers in South Carolina.
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Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Colestipol Hcl | 12 | $555 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 32 | $143 |
| Metronidazole | 11 | $48 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Columbia
- Sidney MorrisonColumbia$11K
- Katherine RosenColumbia$4K
- Sylvia KimColumbia$2K
- Kasim MirzaColumbia$2K
- Irena Gribovskaja-RuppColumbia$508
- Richard AliaColumbia$172
- Leslie MooreColumbia$52
- Jorge Lagares-GarciaCharleston$23K
- Dean AdamsGreenville$12K
- Thomas CurranCharleston$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.