Has Aftab Patni, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,047 in general payments to Aftab Patni, MD across 18 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 Aftab Patni, 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 Aftab Patni, 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.

Aftab Patni, MD

Otolaryngology · Winter Park, FLNPI 1043214307

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,056 of the $5,047 with a category attached, or 80.4%. Oticon Medical, LLC accounts for 66.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,343 and has fallen 63.2% since, to $1,229 in 2025.

$5,047in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $280.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Oticon Medical, LLC$3K
Med-el Corporation$1K
Cochlear Americas$340
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$66
Advanced Bionics, LLC$44
Acclarent, Inc$24

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,05680%
Food & beverage$99120%

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
Oticon Medical, LLC	2	$3,343
Med-el Corporation	6	$1,230
Cochlear Americas	4	$340
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	3	$66
Advanced Bionics, LLC	2	$44
Acclarent, Inc	1	$24

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.

PONTO BONE ANCHORED HEARING SYSTEM$3,343
Mi1250 SYNCHRONY 2 FLEXsoft$1,079
ADHEAR Professional Kit$1,079
BCI 602 Kit$1,079
Cochlear$253
Baha$126

How this compares

$5,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 586 otolaryngology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$225,486

Medicare patients

582

Services billed

2,493

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
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	40	$5,128
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	32	$2,378
Ofloxacin	84	$2,248
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	68	$2,240
Cephalexin	47	$454
Fluticasone Propionate	31	$426
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	44	$208
Clobetasol Propionate	19	$184
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	26	$110
Prednisone	17	$29
Azelastine Hcl	12	$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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