Deepa Patel, MD
Surgery · Elmwood Park, ILNPI 1265876684
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.7%), education and other — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 28.5% of the total.
Across 52 payments — averaging $101.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medtronic$843
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$809
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$625
- Kerecis Limited$505
- Baxter Healthcare$221
- plus $765 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,83054%
- Education$1,66232%
- Other$78115%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 3 | $1,504 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $843 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $809 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 13 | $625 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $505 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $221 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 4 | $182 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $162 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $136 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $58 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Elucent Medical | 2 | $35 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,373
- Da Vinci Surgical System$750
- DAVINCI XI$750
- Sonicision$597
- MICROMATRIX$491
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$343
- CYTAL$291
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$221
- SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$162
- Enhertu$121
- Signia$115
How this compares
$5,273 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,180 surgery providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $73 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 31 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Elmwood Park
- Frederick TiesengaElmwood Park$54K
- Jaishankar RamanBurr Ridge$1.6M
- Reza GamagamiNew Lenox$1.2M
- Francesco BiancoChicago$1M
- Mark KeldahlChicago$765K
- Barry RosenBarrington$443K
- Douglas JonesChampaign$425K
- Rami LutfiChicago$411K
- Paul VanaDowners Grove$368K
- Erik BorncampNew Lenox$364K
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.