Alpesh Patel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Chicago, ILNPI 1639192164
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $610,807 of the $916,640 with a category attached, or 66.6%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 44.8% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery 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 406 payments — averaging $2257.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$410K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$367K
- CTL Medical Corporation$46K
- Kuros Biosciences AG$31K
- Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$18K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$14K
- plus $30K from 21 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $6257.14 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Nview Medical, Inc$44K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$610,80767%
- Consulting fees$229,93225%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2500%
- Travel & lodging$59,5156%
- Food & beverage$14,6032%
- Education$1,2000%
- Gifts$300%
- Entertainment$3020%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 26 | $410,339 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 180 | $367,210 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 21 | $46,250 |
| Kuros Biosciences AG | 2 | $30,734 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 70 | $18,389 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 12 | $13,770 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 12 | $9,428 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 10 | $5,752 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $4,886 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 28 | $2,975 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $1,800 |
| United Orthopedics LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Lightbody Medical Technologies Inc | 4 | $1,148 |
| Stryker | 8 | $1,091 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $384 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $250 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $191 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 4 | $128 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $108 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $78 |
| Argentum Medical | 1 | $58 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $43 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $40 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
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.
- Modulus$405,408
- Other - Miscellaneous$132,761
- MagnetOs$45,943
- Spinal$24,513
- INVICTUS OPEN$22,299
- NA$10,875
- IdentiTi$6,879
- Other - MIS$4,500
- 7D Surgical System$3,301
- MONOCRYL$1,875
- Mobi-C$1,800
- DERMABOND$1,725
- STRATAFIX$1,725
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$1,517
- EXPAREL$1,150
- Cervical$1,031
- MISCELLANEOUS$865
- CONDUIT$697
- Mariner Deformity$561
- Trestle Luxe$525
How this compares
$916,640 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 844 orthopaedic surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 76 | $430 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $341 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $144 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Chicago
- Aaron RosenbergChicago$12.4M
- Anish KadakiaChicago$2.1M
- Wellington HsuChicago$1.7M
- Ken YamaguchiChicago$1.7M
- Guido MarraChicago$1.2M
- Hue LuuChicago$1.1M
- Samuel StulbergChicago$852K
- Richard BergerChicago$618K
- Ari KazChicago$343K
- Steven GitelisChicago$324K
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.