Dhaval Patel, MD
Plastic Surgery · Rockford, ILNPI 1497899009
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,877 of the $7,976 with a category attached, or 61.1%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merz North America, Inc. at 34.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,817 and has fallen 78.5% since, to $606 in 2025.
Across 114 payments — averaging $69.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merz North America, Inc.$3K
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$2K
- Mentor Worldwide LLC$1K
- AbbVie$929
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$554
- Medtronic$104
- plus $104 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,09939%
- Food & beverage$4,87761%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merz North America, Inc. | 25 | $2,720 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 10 | $2,211 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 27 | $1,353 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $929 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 31 | $554 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $104 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $14 |
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
$7,976 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 191 plastic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 169 | $785 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 126 | $535 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $279 |
| Ibuprofen | 54 | $189 |
| Scopolamine | 14 | $180 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 28 | $141 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 24 | $112 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in Rockford
- Landon PryorRockford$20K
- Turkia AbbedRockford$5K
- Sarah HagartyRockford$4K
- Steven DayanChicago$1.2M
- Saeed ChowdhryOak Lawn$403K
- Marco EllisChicago$225K
- Robert GalianoChicago$123K
- Theresa CamberisArlington Heights$113K
- Michael LeeChicago$109K
- Karol GutowskiGlenview$53K
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.