Gauri Patel
Dentist · Milwaukee, WINPI 1942468848
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $165,673 of the $215,639 with a category attached, or 76.8%. Dentsply Sirona Inc accounts for 80.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among dentist clinicians in WI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 205 payments — averaging $1051.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$173K
- Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc$16K
- Dentsply LLC$16K
- Sirona Dental, Inc.$10K
- Maillefer Instruments Holding Sarl$1K
- Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$270
- plus $318 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,6006%
- Speaking & faculty fees$165,67377%
- Travel & lodging$27,81413%
- Food & beverage$5,7963%
- Education$3,2432%
- Entertainment$5130%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 164 | $172,578 |
| Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc | 11 | $15,576 |
| Dentsply LLC | 11 | $15,556 |
| Sirona Dental, Inc. | 6 | $10,295 |
| Maillefer Instruments Holding Sarl | 1 | $1,045 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 3 | $270 |
| Orapharma, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $118 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 1 | $101 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Kulzer, LLC | 2 | $27 |
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.
- TPH Spectra Universal Composite Restorative Low Viscosity$13,441
- TENEO$9,883
- SureSmile$7,472
- Dentsply Orthodontics$6,475
- CEREC$3,618
- SureSmile Aligners$2,925
- DENTSPLY$2,307
- CELTRA Duo$1,790
- BIOHORIZONS$1,071
- Restorative Dentistry$1,045
- ORTHOPHOS$1,000
- Calibra$297
- CABINETS$274
How this compares
$215,639 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,163 dentist providers in Wisconsin.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | 32 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other dentist in Milwaukee
- Timothy BaggottMilwaukee$27K
- Issa DkeidekMilwaukee$24K
- Nicole KujawaMilwaukee$13K
- Kinan Al-BitarMilwaukee$5K
- Tia RinzelMilwaukee$3K
- Hala AfifaMilwaukee$3K
- Reema PatelMilwaukee$2K
- Richard RomeneskoAppleton$535K
- Christopher StevensSun Prairie$39K
- Deepak NeduvelilMount Pleasant$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.