Chetanbabu Patel
Pediatric Endocrinology · Tucson, AZNPI 1568684629
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 346 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 41 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 9.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 346 payments — averaging $19.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$616
- Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$429
- Insulet Corporation$428
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$366
- Tolmar, Inc.$355
- Dexcom, Inc.$322
- plus $4K from 35 others
Across 25 payments — averaging $1847.82 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.
- Abbott$46K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,560100%
- Entertainment$220%
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.
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
$6,582 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 35 pediatric endocrinology providers in Arizona.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 13 | $24 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pediatric endocrinology in Tucson
- Rishita TiwariTucson$5K
- Priti PatelTucson$5K
- Mark WheelerTucson$494
- Sunil SinhaTucson$330
- Cindy ChinTucson$181
- Sarah GreenTucson$91
- Eileen Baez IrizarryPhoenix$53K
- Pamela SmithPhoenix$26K
- Chirag KapadiaPhoenix$13K
- Grazyna Piekos-SobczakPhoenix$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.