Has Gopal Patel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $799 in general payments to Gopal Patel, MD across 42 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 Gopal Patel, 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 Gopal Patel, 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.

Gopal Patel, MD

Dermatology · Media, PANPI 1376774570

Payments from drug & device makers

$799in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $19.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$196
Novartis$151
Johnson & Johnson$117
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$50
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$43
Pfizer$40
plus $203 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$78698%
Education$132%

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
AbbVie	9	$196
Novartis	8	$151
Johnson & Johnson	5	$117
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	3	$50
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$43
Pfizer	3	$40
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$35
Amgen	2	$34
Sanofi	2	$34
Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.	2	$32
Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals	2	$27
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$25
Journey Medical Corporation	1	$16

How this compares

$799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 626 dermatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$393,015

Medicare patients

1,023

Services billed

5,688

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
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab	14	$102,063
Dupixent PenDupilumab	13	$50,993
Clobetasol Propionate	144	$5,365
Ketoconazole	238	$3,824
Tacrolimus	25	$2,906
Fluorouracil	32	$1,901
Tretinoin	12	$1,834
Azelaic Acid	13	$1,153
Fluocinonide	38	$1,031
Metronidazole	22	$1,011
Triamcinolone Acetonide	110	$952
Doxycycline Hyclate	41	$943
Hydrocortisone	96	$794
Desonide	14	$750
Betamethasone Dipropionate	18	$712

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Media

Victoria WerthPhiladelphia$7.2M
Laura FerrisPittsburgh$4.3M
Joel GelfandPhiladelphia$3.6M
Scott GottliebExton$3.4M
Lawrence ParishPhiladelphia$2.9M
Stephen SchleicherSugarloaf$2.3M
Douglas KressWexford$2M
Stephen HessPhiladelphia$1.7M
Joe TungPittsburgh$1.5M
Joslyn Sciacca-KirbyHershey$1.3M

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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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