Has Slif Ulrich, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,261 in general payments to Slif Ulrich, MD across 178 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Slif Ulrich, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Slif Ulrich, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Slif Ulrich, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1447413851

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,749 of the $12,261 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 31.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,461 and has fallen 74.1% since, to $898 in 2025.

$12,261in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 178 payments — averaging $68.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$4K
Zimmer Biomet$4K
Stryker$3K
Medacta USA, Inc.$412
Amgen$260
Osteoremedies, LLC$237
plus $464 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,51229%
Food & beverage$8,74971%

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
Smith+Nephew	31	$3,870
Zimmer Biomet	43	$3,630
Stryker	51	$3,389
Medacta USA, Inc.	4	$412
Amgen	38	$260
Osteoremedies, LLC	2	$237
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$154
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$139
Johnson & Johnson	2	$101
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$24
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$16
Convatec Inc.	1	$16
Heron Therapeutics, 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

$12,261 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 30 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$446,061

Medicare patients

740

Services billed

6,306

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
EliquisApixaban	102	$27,300
Naloxone Hcl	66	$4,273
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	232	$1,998
Diclofenac Sodium	171	$1,266
Mupirocin	131	$880
Tramadol Hcl	275	$764
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	15	$578
Omeprazole	66	$549
Celecoxib	16	$359
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	37	$339
Methylprednisolone	54	$309
Meloxicam	137	$265
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	36	$254
Doxycycline Hyclate	23	$133
Gabapentin	47	$123

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Columbia

Richard FriedmanCharleston$691K
Justin BrothersMyrtle Beach$203K
Erik HansenCharleston$192K
John McCrossonMt Pleasant$176K
Josef EichingerCharleston$117K
Peter RamseyConway$59K
Matthew SteinCharleston$29K
Daniel DelgaizoBeaufort$25K
Frank ArmocidaGreer$23K
Stephen FinleyGreenville$23K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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.

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