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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $615 in general payments to Hiral Patel, MD across 18 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 Hiral 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 Hiral 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.

Hiral Patel, MD

Pain Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1922353010

Payments from drug & device makers

$615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $34.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Vertos Medical, Inc.$162
Averitas Pharma Inc.$158
Medtronic$95
Abbott$78
AbbVie$72
Johnson & Johnson$50

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$615100%

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
Vertos Medical, Inc.	2	$162
Averitas Pharma Inc.	8	$158
Medtronic	1	$95
Abbott	2	$78
AbbVie(2 entities)	4	$72
Johnson & Johnson	1	$50

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.

mild Device Kit$148

How this compares

$615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 583 pain medicine providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$126,320

Medicare patients

136

Services billed

9,093

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
Pregabalin	309	$10,161
Gabapentin	646	$8,285
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	205	$5,305
Lidocaine	32	$3,653
Methocarbamol	222	$2,846
Diclofenac Sodium	61	$2,556
Tramadol Hcl	305	$1,532
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	12	$1,527
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	63	$1,475
Duloxetine Hcl	101	$1,333
Tizanidine Hcl	137	$1,002
Celecoxib	49	$905
Baclofen	59	$707
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	77	$562
Meloxicam	169	$543

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Matthew ChungHouston$26K
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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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