Has Demetrius Patton, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,186 in general payments to Demetrius Patton, MD across 29 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Demetrius Patton, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Demetrius Patton, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Demetrius Patton, MD

Surgery · Salem, KYNPI 1730184730

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,421 of the $2,186 with a category attached, or 65.0%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Apollo Endosurgery US Inc at 54.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,038 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $80 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $2,265.

$2,186in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $75.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$1K
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$572
Johnson & Johnson$170
Olympus America Inc.$73
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$66
Endogastric Solutions, Inc$51
plus $65 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,42165%
Food & beverage$76535%

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
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	9	$1,189
Olympus Corporation Of The Americas	5	$572
Johnson & Johnson	2	$170
Olympus America Inc.	2	$73
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	4	$66
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	4	$51
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$30
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$18
Boston Scientific	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.

OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$849
ENDOEYE FLEX 3D DEFLECTABLE VIDEOSCOPE$502
4K Cable 8.5M$325
Echelon Flex$101

How this compares

$2,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,343

Medicare patients

115

Services billed

546

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
Sucralfate	218	$4,920
Omeprazole	177	$986
Metoclopramide Hcl	125	$895
Nystatin	12	$295
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$160
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	41	$159
Pantoprazole Sodium	19	$129
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	11	$113
Famotidine	19	$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Salem

Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
John RothLexington$820K
John OldhamLouisville$515K
George MundayDanville$271K
Amber KoonHenderson$210K
Frank MillerLouisville$119K
Jared DavisLouisville$89K
Aaron HouseCorbin$79K
James WatkinsCampbellsville$70K
Katrina KolasaDanville$66K

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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.

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