Akash Patel
Internal Medicine · Stratford, NJNPI 1427540236
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 85 payments — averaging $90.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$6K
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$325
- Atricure, Inc.$296
- Boston Scientific$271
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$228
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$140
- plus $698 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$4,71161%
- Food & beverage$2,32030%
- Education$6549%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 24 | $5,728 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 9 | $325 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 4 | $296 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $271 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $228 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $140 |
| Amgen | 8 | $133 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $112 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $93 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $67 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Bayer | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $35 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $20 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Novo Nordisk | 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
$7,686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
Other internal medicine in Stratford
- Sanjiv SharmaToms River$33.9M
- Jeffrey CarsonNew Brunswick$13.8M
- Samer HaddadHamilton$6.8M
- Magdy ShenoudaWall$3.7M
- Samar HameedLivingston$3.6M
- Jane RohlfTrenton$2.7M
- Mohammed NisarEdison$2.6M
- Michael CasserNew Milford$2.2M
- Sumitha ReddyHamilton$2M
- Helio PedroNewark$1.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.