Michael Rawlins, MD
Surgery · Summerville, SCNPI 1225199441
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (45.9%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 31.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $12,394 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $385 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 168 payments — averaging $297.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Johnson & Johnson$14K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$9K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$6K
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$3K
- Medtronic$597
- plus $757 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$22,88746%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,7305%
- Travel & lodging$6,67513%
- Food & beverage$6,60813%
- Education$11,00022%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 57 | $15,723 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $14,202 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 15 | $9,490 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 54 | $5,742 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $3,405 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $597 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $141 |
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 3 | $133 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $90 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 2 | $59 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $28 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,831
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$8,539
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$8,300
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$6,140
- Echelon Flex$5,400
- CONTOUR$5,300
- EXPAREL$3,315
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$1,820
- GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$1,383
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$420
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$360
- Signia$322
- SEAMGUARD$251
- LigaSure$151
- Endo GIA$141
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$127
- Sonicision$124
- VOQUEZNA$120
How this compares
$49,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 553 surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 21 | $970 |
| Sucralfate | 24 | $715 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Summerville
- Michael MichelSummerville$31K
- Ari KramerSpartanburg$502K
- Chitharanjan PullattranaCharleston$408K
- John ScottGreenville$242K
- Jason CundiffGreenville$235K
- Steven KahnCharleston$197K
- John KramerPawleys Island$194K
- William CobbGreenville$159K
- Steven LauzonSumter$143K
- Shanu KothariGreenville$122K
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.