Chirag Patel, MD
Internal Medicine · Merrillville, INNPI 1205981750
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $26.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$237
- AbbVie$235
- Lilly USA, LLC$204
- Acorda Therapeutics, Inc$171
- Biogen$132
- Novo Nordisk$127
- plus $1K from 28 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,417100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $237 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $235 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $204 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 10 | $171 |
| Biogen | 4 | $132 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $127 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 4 | $118 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $111 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 5 | $108 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 4 | $66 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $46 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $46 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $43 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $29 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abbott | 1 | $18 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $12 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $8 |
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.
- Epidiolex$125
- KISUNLA$125
- REXULTI$125
- XCOPRI$125
- Xultophy 100/3.6$107
How this compares
$2,417 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
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 | 2,009 | $654,298 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 432 | $171,549 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 396 | $168,614 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 363 | $122,848 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 217 | $110,657 |
| NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate | 19 | $99,398 |
| FingolimodFingolimod Hcl | 13 | $95,995 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 107 | $85,581 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 109 | $70,101 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 184 | $61,392 |
| Memantine Hcl | 2,319 | $55,029 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 171 | $51,304 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 4,531 | $47,897 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 43 | $43,661 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 91 | $39,249 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $111 | $171,549432 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $12 | $110,657217 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $204 | $85,581107 claims |
| AbbVieRestasis, Vraylar, Namzaric | $235 | $53,386105 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $127 | $43,66143 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium | $18 | $26,9572,887 claims |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta | $23 | $20,42326 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 85th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.
Other internal medicine in Merrillville
- Robert BuynakValparaiso$24.2M
- Mohammed AllawNewburgh$3.6M
- Raj VuppalanchiIndianapolis$3.4M
- Phillip TothIndianapolis$3.2M
- George CornettFranklin$1.3M
- Ajita NarayanLafayette$951K
- Abhinav SinghGreenwood$738K
- Georgiann LinnemeierIndianapolis$692K
- Wa'el BakdashAnderson$625K
- Rita SchmidSouth Bend$599K
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.