Has Ashvin Patel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $78,889 in general payments to Ashvin Patel, MD across 162 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 Ashvin Patel, 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 Ashvin Patel, 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.

Ashvin Patel, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Sarasota, FLNPI 1215975172

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Centinel Spine, LLC at 39.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $25,702, 3.2 times the $7,987 reported in 2019.

$78,889in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $486.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Centinel Spine, LLC$32K
Carlsmed, Inc.$31K
Globus Medical$11K
Johnson & Johnson$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Highridge Medical LLC$1K
plus $1K from 13 others

$982,068in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $8049.74 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Centinel Spine, LLC$545K
Carlsmed, Inc.$271K
Globus Medical$118K
Premia Spine, Ltd.$32K
Medtronic$15K
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$46,97560%
Speaking & faculty fees$9,35012%
Travel & lodging$16,04420%
Food & beverage$6,2718%
Education$2120%
Other$370%

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
Centinel Spine, LLC	32	$31,505
Carlsmed, Inc.	35	$30,899
Globus Medical(2 entities)	13	$11,481
Johnson & Johnson	41	$1,650
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	10	$1,173
Highridge Medical LLC	7	$1,150
Zimmer Biomet	3	$215
Stryker(2 entities)	3	$154
Intrinsic Therapeutics	4	$133
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	1	$118
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$109
7d Surgical ULC	1	$63
Zimvie Inc.	1	$60
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$45
Medtronic	2	$41
Baxter Healthcare	1	$37
Boston Scientific	1	$21
Augmedics Inc.	1	$21
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$14

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

$78,889 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 159 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$779,622

Medicare patients

1,112

Services billed

4,606

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	138	$1,690
Celecoxib	48	$1,677
Oxycodone Hcl	251	$1,654
Methylprednisolone	177	$1,154
Pregabalin	36	$870
Gabapentin	68	$863
Ondansetron Hcl	79	$441
Tramadol Hcl	109	$384
Meloxicam	113	$256
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	24	$98
Folic Acid	13	$55
Lorazepam	23	$24

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Sarasota

Thomas SweeneySarasota$2.3M
Ngoc-Lam NguyenSarasota$346K
Harry ShufflebargerMiami$3.5M
Paul KellerMelbourne$3.4M
Geoffrey CronenTampa$2.2M
James BillysOdessa$1.9M
Mark DekutoskiDestin$1.8M
Farhan SiddiqiOdessa$1.7M
Samuel JosephSafety Harbor$1.7M
Thomas ErricoMiami$1.6M

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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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