Question 1

Has Heena Shah Patel received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $693,933 in general payments to Heena Shah Patel across 1,346 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Heena Shah Patel did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Heena Shah Patel come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
GSK	505	$442,422
Sanofi	116	$67,895
Regeneron	48	$67,709
Genentech, Inc.	11	$43,613
Astrazeneca UK Limited	1	$33,725
Incyte Corporation	52	$9,886
Mylan Specialty L.p.	5	$8,179
Novartis	12	$6,203
AstraZeneca	103	$3,441
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	87	$1,900
CSL Behring	59	$1,195
Pfizer	64	$1,184
LEO Pharma Inc.	47	$940
AbbVie	39	$917
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	39	$783
Pharming Healthcare, Inc.	12	$444
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	5	$426
Optinose US, Inc.	32	$381
Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC	15	$364
Amgen(2 entities)	12	$322
Genentech USA, Inc.	15	$312
Boehringer Ingelheim	6	$213
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	11	$196
Octapharma USA, Inc.	4	$182
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	2	$148
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$142
Merck	3	$142
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	5	$115
Kaleo, Inc.	6	$107
Alk-abello, Inc	4	$87
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	3	$76
Grifols USA, LLC	3	$61
Shire North American Group Inc	3	$55
Phadia US Inc.	2	$39
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	2	$33
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$25
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Bio Products Laboratory USA, Inc.	1	$15
Insmed, Inc.	1	$14

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