Amit Patel
Periodontics · Carrollton, TXNPI 1447560966
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,009 of the $7,618 with a category attached, or 65.8%. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.7%. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,344 and has fallen 82.0% since, to $421 in 2025.
Across 109 payments — averaging $69.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Keystone Dental Inc.$1K
- Nobel Biocare USA$1K
- Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.$1K
- Straumann USA LLC$1K
- Henry Schein, Inc.$551
- Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$425
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5007%
- Food & beverage$5,00966%
- Education$4346%
- Gifts$6318%
- Entertainment$1,04314%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Keystone Dental Inc. | 16 | $1,500 |
| Nobel Biocare USA | 24 | $1,477 |
| Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc. | 10 | $1,103 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 11 | $1,005 |
| Henry Schein, Inc. | 2 | $551 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 12 | $425 |
| ACE Surgical Supply Co., Inc. | 10 | $303 |
| Neocis Inc. | 1 | $265 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 4 | $243 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 4 | $235 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 1 | $216 |
| Carestream Dental, LLC | 3 | $111 |
| Philips North America LLC | 5 | $80 |
| Kerr Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| VOCO America Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $14 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Elevate Oral Care | 1 | $13 |
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.
- NOBELACTIVE$345
- NOBELPARALLEL$345
- NOBELSPEEDY$345
- NOBELREPLACE$345
- NOBELPROCERA$345
- Bio-Gide$216
- BioHorizons Dental Implants- TRX3812$211
- BioHorizons Dental Implants- TRX3810$211
- BioHorizons Dental Implants- BTA4210$211
- BioHorizons Dental Implants- BTA4212$211
- BioHorizons Dental Implants- TRX4610$211
- ASTRA TECH Implant System$205
- OCTAGON DRIVER CONVERSION KIT$145
- Socket Repair Membrane$140
How this compares
$7,618 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 403 periodontics providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 50 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other periodontics in Carrollton
- Kumar VadivelCarrollton$6K
- Edward AllenDallas$866K
- Thomas WilsonDallas$568K
- Syed ShereHouston$315K
- Paul ChangMcKinney$216K
- Jaebum LeeCoppell$188K
- Frederico da SilvaFlower Mound$151K
- Eric ScheyerHouston$94K
- Farhad EslamboltchiArlington$88K
- Seung-Jun LeeIrving$84K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.