Ajay Patel, MD
Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Winfield, ILNPI 1396901088
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $19,540 of the $22,020 with a category attached, or 88.7%. Beckman Coulter, Inc. accounts for 91.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $19,662 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $1,642 in 2025. Among anatomic pathology & clinical pathology clinicians in IL 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 39 payments — averaging $564.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Beckman Coulter, Inc.$20K
- Stryker$952
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$164
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$154
- Cepheid$116
- Laborie Medical Technologies Corp.$114
- plus $367 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,54089%
- Speaking & faculty fees$250%
- Travel & lodging$8414%
- Food & beverage$1,6147%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Beckman Coulter, Inc. | 14 | $20,153 |
| Stryker | 9 | $952 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 4 | $164 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $154 |
| Cepheid | 2 | $116 |
| Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. | 1 | $114 |
| Merck | 1 | $86 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $74 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Conmed Corporation | 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.
- CORE$578
- SPRINT PNS System$146
- MICROSCAN$141
- NICO BRAINPATH$120
- Optilume BPH Drug Coated Balloon Catheter$114
- DxA 5000$109
- Aptima$103
- PANTHER FUSION$103
How this compares
$22,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 331 anatomic pathology & clinical pathology 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.
Other anatomic pathology & clinical pathology in Winfield
- Lawrence ArianoWinfield$578
- Anthony ChangBurr Ridge$531K
- Frank PikulBelleville$498K
- Ivana GolubovichMcHenry$421K
- Jeffrey MuellerChicago$71K
- Unknown Amandeep KaurEvanston$66K
- Lindsay AlpertChicago$57K
- Melanie FoxEvanston$38K
- Daniel ArberChicago$37K
- Girish VenkataramanMaywood$30K
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.