Ashit Patel
Plastic Surgery · Durham, NCNPI 1093987828
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,776 of the $6,296 with a category attached, or 75.9%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 38.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,713 and has fallen 72.4% since, to $473 in 2025.
Across 89 payments — averaging $70.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Sientra, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$372
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$193
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$164
- plus $616 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,52024%
- Food & beverage$4,77676%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 54 | $2,429 |
| Abbott | 1 | $1,520 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 16 | $1,002 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $372 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $193 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $164 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| Acell, Inc. | 3 | $139 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $107 |
| Stryker | 2 | $78 |
| Convatec 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
$6,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 128 plastic surgery providers in North Carolina.
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 plastic surgery in Durham
- Howard LevinsonDurham$167K
- Suhail MithaniDurham$146K
- Duncan HughesDurham$68K
- David BrownDurham$16K
- Detlev ErdmannDurham$14K
- Linda CendalesDurham$8K
- Scott HollenbeckDurham$7K
- Nicholas ClavinCharlotte$562K
- Luther HoltonWilmington$533K
- Theodore NyameCharlotte$364K
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.