Bhavi Patel, MD
Internal Medicine · Hillsborough, NJNPI 1306850409
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,000 of the $6,029 with a category attached, or 66.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $5,236 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $396 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in NJ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 24 payments — averaging $251.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$204
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$157
- Globus Medical$137
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$125
- Boehringer Ingelheim$125
- plus $336 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$92815%
- Food & beverage$1,10118%
- Education$4,00066%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $4,945 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $204 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $157 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $137 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $125 |
| Vertex | 1 | $123 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $69 |
| Abbott | 3 | $58 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 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
$6,029 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 33 | $18,506 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 14 | $9,333 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 96 | $942 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 47 | $548 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 41 | $500 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 17 | $371 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 49 | $365 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 53 | $327 |
| Torsemide | 11 | $321 |
| Famotidine | 18 | $315 |
| Bumetanide | 16 | $225 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 17 | $197 |
| Furosemide | 63 | $194 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 21 | $193 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 18 | $173 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Hillsborough
- David ShulkinMorristown$1.7M
- Howard UdermanLakewood$955K
- Darshi SunderamEast Orange$530K
- Annika DrongeEmerson$401K
- Stephen MarcellaNew Brunswick$331K
- Viju VijaysadanKinnelon$325K
- Mark MonaneWoodcliff Lake$268K
- Martin BedigianLivingston$240K
- Rameck HuntPlainsboro$217K
- Angel LazoSecaucus$195K
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.