Amit Patel, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Fort Walton Beach, FLNPI 1669447199
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.0%), travel and lodging and royalties or licence payments — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8%. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $906 and has fallen 78.7% since, to $193 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in FL, where the typical reported total is $6,925.
Across 37 payments — averaging $63.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$562
- Cook Medical LLC$513
- Cook Incorporated$499
- Stryker$361
- Boston Scientific$139
- Abbott$76
- plus $210 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$49921%
- Travel & lodging$70530%
- Food & beverage$1,15549%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 15 | $562 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $513 |
| Cook Incorporated | 3 | $499 |
| Stryker | 6 | $361 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $139 |
| Abbott | 1 | $76 |
| Kedrion Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $26 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $14 |
| Davol Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$2,359 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 408 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Florida.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Fort Walton Beach
- Anthony NunezOrlando$4.8M
- Barry WintonLargo$687K
- Paul DigiorgiPort Charlotte$666K
- John PirrisJacksonville$640K
- Jacques FontaineTampa$630K
- Andrew ShermanTampa$517K
- Rogerio CarrilloHialeah$515K
- Daniel O'HairFort Myers$429K
- Luis HerreraOrlando$409K
- Joseph LamelasMiami$379K
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.