Aisha Akhtar
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Phoenix, AZNPI 1316314909
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.3%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.7%. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $968 and has fallen 62.1% since, to $367 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in AZ, where the typical reported total is $5,787.
Across 48 payments — averaging $62.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- THD America, Inc.$619
- Intuitive Surgical$599
- Axonics, Inc.$547
- Davol Inc.$264
- Teleflex LLC$257
- Stryker$255
- plus $453 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08436%
- Food & beverage$1,65555%
- Education$2559%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $619 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $599 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 14 | $547 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $264 |
| Teleflex LLC | 7 | $257 |
| Stryker | 1 | $255 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $207 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $112 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $36 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Vertex | 1 | $21 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$2,994 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 50 colon & rectal surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metronidazole | 47 | $442 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 15 | $250 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 25 | $147 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 30 | $138 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 14 | $81 |
| Hydrocortisone | 17 | $62 |
| Diazepam | 14 | $31 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $28 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Phoenix
- Eugene KimPhoenix$189K
- Ashley CasanoPhoenix$48K
- Debora Fox-McclaryPhoenix$41K
- Nasrin GhalyaiePhoenix$22K
- Jonathan DameworthPhoenix$8K
- Jason WeissPhoenix$7K
- Nimesh NaikPhoenix$6K
- Julie DrickenPhoenix$4K
- Stephen BrownPhoenix$3K
- Tonia Young-FadokPhoenix$2K
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.