Gaurang Patel, MD
Geriatric Medicine · Decatur, ILNPI 1871584946
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 23 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 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $207 and has fallen 90.1% since, to $20 in 2025.
Across 23 payments — averaging $22.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boehringer Ingelheim$115
- Abbott$63
- AbbVie$62
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$57
- Pfizer$45
- Johnson & Johnson$34
- plus $151 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$527100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $115 |
| Abbott | 1 | $63 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $62 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $57 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $34 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Merck | 2 | $23 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $22 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$527 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 147 geriatric medicine 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 | 16 | $116 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 18 | $98 |
| CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil | 11 | $87 |
| Prednisone | 24 | $45 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $41 |
| Torsemide | 11 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other geriatric medicine in Decatur
- Hima AtluriDecatur$21K
- Michael LimArlington Heights$29K
- Carlos Mella-PicelChicago$9K
- Rekha SharmaHazel Crest$8K
- Beata StykaPalos Heights$6K
- Azeem AhsanCrest Hill$6K
- Adeela CheemaChicago$5K
- Alex SanchezElgin$5K
- Seong ChinGlenview$4K
- Thomas CozziArlington Heights$3K
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.