Amit Patel, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Dalton, GANPI 1861750028
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.5% of the total across 361 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 33.5% of the total.
Across 361 payments — averaging $20.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$594
- Curonix LLC$473
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$300
- Boston Scientific$266
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4566%
- Food & beverage$6,92794%
- Education$220%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 241 | $2,477 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 24 | $1,617 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 7 | $594 |
| Curonix LLC | 10 | $473 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 17 | $300 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $266 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $253 |
| USWM, LLC | 11 | $248 |
| Painteq LLC | 5 | $226 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 9 | $178 |
| Stryker | 1 | $150 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $115 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 7 | $107 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Gilead | 3 | $48 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Abbott | 2 | $42 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $23 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Resmed Corp | 1 | $19 |
| Masimo Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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
$7,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 129 interventional pain medicine providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 425 | $314,455 |
| RelistorMethylnaltrexone Bromide | 78 | $196,012 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 2,052 | $134,445 |
| Buprenorphine | 336 | $92,471 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 2,201 | $55,069 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 89 | $35,995 |
| Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate | 78 | $24,238 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 187 | $15,741 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 797 | $12,520 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 18 | $9,485 |
| ButransBuprenorphine | 18 | $9,317 |
| Pregabalin | 780 | $8,999 |
| Gabapentin | 766 | $8,696 |
| ZtlidoLidocaine | 16 | $8,633 |
| Lidocaine | 104 | $8,364 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Xtampza Er | $300 | $338,693503 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCRelistor | $2,477 | $196,01278 claims |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc.Movantik | $107 | $35,99589 claims |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Ztlido | $23 | $8,63316 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 129 interventional pain medicine providers in Georgia.
Other interventional pain medicine in Dalton
- Richard Belle IsleDalton$5K
- Emmanuel GageBrunswick$602K
- Jordan TateJasper$540K
- Christopher BovinetBrunswick$338K
- David RosenfeldCovington$249K
- Nathan NeufeldNewnan$171K
- Ryan BudwanyLawrenceville$123K
- Alexandra MoreiraAtlanta$79K
- Sushanth BodaNewnan$55K
- Christopher AndrianoStockbridge$41K
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.