Bhavik Patel, MD
Diagnostic Radiology · Dallas, TXNPI 1588828941
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,560 of the $8,536 with a category attached, or 88.6%. Merck accounts for 65.1% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,158 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $17 in 2021. Among diagnostic radiology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 10 payments — averaging $853.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$6K
- GE HealthCare$3K
- Abbott$17
Across 3 payments — averaging $91,667 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.
- GE HealthCare$275K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,56089%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7509%
- Food & beverage$2263%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 4 | $5,560 |
| GE HealthCare | 5 | $2,958 |
| Abbott | 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.
- KEYTRUDA$5,560
How this compares
$8,536 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,506 diagnostic radiology providers in Texas.
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 diagnostic radiology in Dallas
- Steven RoweDallas$407K
- Sean RajDallas$122K
- Umesh OzaDallas$100K
- Ike ThackerDallas$82K
- Alastair MooreDallas$70K
- Kennith LaytonDallas$55K
- Avneesh ChhabraDallas$50K
- Jamaal BenjaminDallas$34K
- Marc GosselinDallas$26K
- Jeffrey SiegelDallas$19K
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.