Has Akshal Patel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,971 in general payments to Akshal Patel, MD across 108 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 Akshal Patel, 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 Akshal Patel, 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.

Akshal Patel, MD

Neurological Surgery · Seattle, WANPI 1447451562

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Balt USA, LLC at 59.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,422 and has fallen 85.0% since, to $515 in 2025.

$8,971in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 108 payments — averaging $83.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Balt USA, LLC$5K
Globus Medical$823
Imperative Care, Inc$663
Silk Road Medical, Inc.$653
Medtronic$428
Microvention, Inc.$365
plus $672 from 9 others

$50,290in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $3352.67 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Penumbra, Inc.$50K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,62240%
Food & beverage$5,34960%

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
Balt USA, LLC	58	$5,366
Globus Medical	8	$823
Imperative Care, Inc	8	$663
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	10	$653
Medtronic	11	$428
Microvention, Inc.	4	$365
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$181
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$150
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$136
Stryker	1	$48
Inspiremd Ltd	1	$42
Route 92 Medical, Inc.	1	$39
Johnson & Johnson	1	$37
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$20
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$19

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

$8,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 175 neurological surgery providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$296,184

Medicare patients

223

Services billed

692

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
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	57	$551
Mupirocin	16	$106

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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