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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $578 in general payments to Azad Patel, MD across 10 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 Azad 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 Azad 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.

Azad Patel, MD

Internal Medicine · Marion, VANPI 1558983247

Payments from drug & device makers

$578in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $57.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$199
United Therapeutics Corporation$100
AstraZeneca$89
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$72
Boehringer Ingelheim$52
Amgen$26
plus $40 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$578100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	1	$199
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$100
AstraZeneca	2	$89
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	1	$72
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$52
Amgen	1	$26
Abiomed	1	$22
AbbVie	1	$17

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.

Monarch Platform$199

How this compares

$578 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$59,583

Medicare patients

190

Services billed

547

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	20	$11,649
Cefdinir	46	$604
Doxycycline Hyclate	36	$238
Tamsulosin Hcl	13	$230
Prednisone	24	$178
Pantoprazole Sodium	33	$142
Metoprolol Succinate	21	$135
Amlodipine Besylate	22	$127
Lisinopril	18	$59
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	11	$57
Levofloxacin	12	$50
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$45
Furosemide	14	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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David RamstadSuffolk$5.8M
Andrew PoklepovicRichmond$4.6M
Nashwa GabraBurke$4.3M
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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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