Aalok Patel, MD
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · River Forest, ILNPI 1700317658
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $15,000 of the $24,246 with a category attached, or 61.9%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 77.9% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $10,445 and has fallen 90.7% since, to $975 in 2025.
Across 116 payments — averaging $209.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$19K
- Stryker$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Amgen$471
- Medtronic$369
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$219
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,06217%
- Food & beverage$5,18421%
- Education$15,00062%
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 | 19 | $18,882 |
| Stryker | 34 | $1,859 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 5 | $1,220 |
| Amgen | 17 | $471 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $369 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $219 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $184 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $140 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 4 | $114 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $110 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $106 |
| Vertex | 4 | $100 |
| Abbott | 2 | $96 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Omnilife Science, Inc | 3 | $64 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $61 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $55 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Journey II$3,406
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$2,503
- Legion Revision$1,553
- OR3O Dual Mobility$1,553
- JOURNEY$1,553
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$1,481
- ATTUNE$1,186
- MAKO$272
- PRIME SERIES$165
- ACCOLADE$137
- Sonicision$128
- Signia$115
- EKOSONIC$110
- Other - Miscellaneous$106
How this compares
$24,246 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 67 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 43 | $173 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $80 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $75 |
| Cefadroxil | 14 | $53 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in River Forest
- Wayne PaproskyWinfield$10.9M
- Scott SporerWinfield$5.3M
- Denis NamChicago$3.2M
- Craig della ValleChicago$2.4M
- Hany BedairChicago$1.1M
- Linda SuleimanChicago$898K
- Tad GerlingerChicago$642K
- Henry FinnChicago$523K
- Vasili KarasChicago$264K
- Brett LevineChicago$250K
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.