Bharat Patel, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Melbourne, FLNPI 1457351322
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $18.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$140
- Abbott$76
- Si-bone, Inc.$51
- AbbVie$46
- Radius Health, Inc.$28
- Bioventus LLC$25
- plus $163 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$530100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $140 |
| Abbott | 3 | $76 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $46 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pernix Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Stimwave Technologies Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$530 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 278 interventional pain medicine providers in Florida.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $1,054 |
| Diazepam | 189 | $297 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $102 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Melbourne
- Ajay AntonyGainesville$1.9M
- Louis RasoJupiter$1.6M
- Gilbert MbeoOrlando$1.4M
- George BesongOrange City$1.2M
- Gary KaoMiddleburg$1.1M
- Neil EllisTampa$1.1M
- Alexis RentaBoynton Beach$1.1M
- Michael EspositoVero Beach$1M
- Jose RiveraTampa$993K
- Nomen AzeemRiverview$691K
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.