Has Ankit Mehta, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $54,712 in general payments to Ankit Mehta, MD across 47 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 Ankit Mehta, 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 Ankit Mehta, 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.

Ankit Mehta, MD

Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1487810792

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $42,460 of the $54,712 with a category attached, or 77.6%. Expanding Innovations, Inc. accounts for 69.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $33,392, 3.9 times the $8,644 reported in 2019. Among internal medicine 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.

$54,712in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 47 payments — averaging $1164.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Expanding Innovations, Inc.$38K
Globus Medical$9K
Icotec Medical Inc.$4K
Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$540
Carlsmed, Inc.$360
plus $880 from 8 others

$38,247in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $12,749 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Expanding Innovations, Inc.$38K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$42,46078%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,55016%
Travel & lodging$1,4283%
Food & beverage$2,2654%
Education$90%

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
Expanding Innovations, Inc.	6	$38,248
Globus Medical(2 entities)	7	$9,426
Icotec Medical Inc.	8	$3,830
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$1,428
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$540
Carlsmed, Inc.	2	$360
Carbofix Spine Inc	7	$302
Johnson & Johnson	4	$164
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$114
Aesculap, Inc.	1	$92
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	1	$85
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$80
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$34
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$9

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.

X-PAC$37,048
CALIBER$8,550
VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$3,328
VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$3,328
KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$3,328
KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$3,328
KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$3,328
Other - Miscellaneous$1,428
aprevo$322
Hedron$275
Velys$206
FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$147
Teligen$142
CellerateRx$110

How this compares

$54,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$52,302

Medicare patients

162

Services billed

455

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
EliquisApixaban	11	$6,416
Metoprolol Succinate	14	$182
Atorvastatin Calcium	12	$100
Amlodipine Besylate	14	$75
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$27

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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