RxDoctor Payments Data

Brimal Patel, MD

Family Medicine · Naugatuck, CTNPI 1083879522

Payments from drug & device makers

$355in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $18.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$171
  • AstraZeneca$69
  • Bayer$37
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$32
  • AbbVie$19
  • Philips North America LLC$15
  • plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$28580%
  • Education$6920%

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

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25

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.

How this compares

$355 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 588 family medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$105,007
Medicare patients
117
Services billed
1,555

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OzempicSemaglutide75$128,838
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate45$61,924
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl29$37,869
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$27,462
LinzessLinaclotide19$25,852
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$16,667
Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl14$14,537
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf21$6,509
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec13$6,377
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog33$4,274
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf16$3,316
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate19$3,185
Atorvastatin Calcium314$2,921
Rosuvastatin Calcium250$2,730
Lidocaine24$2,109

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$171$114,33088 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$19$27,33731 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$69$16,66714 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 588 family medicine providers in Connecticut.

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