Has Janak Parikh received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,361 in general payments to Janak Parikh across 195 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 Janak Parikh 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 Janak Parikh 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.

Janak Parikh

Plastic Surgery · Houston, TXNPI 1639221013

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $15,080 of the $22,361 with a category attached, or 67.4%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 36.6% of the total.

$22,361in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 195 payments — averaging $114.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$8K
Mentor Worldwide LLC$4K
Axogen$3K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Intuitive Surgical$2K
Stryker$361
plus $3K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$500%
Travel & lodging$4,63421%
Food & beverage$15,08067%
Education$2,59812%

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(2 entities)	67	$8,178
Mentor Worldwide LLC	42	$3,931
Axogen	24	$2,790
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	20	$2,268
Intuitive Surgical	10	$2,009
Stryker	2	$361
Kls-martin L.p.	3	$355
TELA Bio, Inc.	2	$315
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	3	$314
Medline Industries LP	2	$285
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$275
Sientra, Inc.	2	$231
Checkpoint Surgical, Inc	4	$218
Medtronic	1	$156
Acell, Inc.	3	$144
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$132
Davol Inc.	1	$125
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.	2	$124
Johnson & Johnson	1	$113
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	1	$22
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$17

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.

How this compares

$22,361 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 337 plastic surgery providers in Texas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Celecoxib	13	$152
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	15	$63
Cephalexin	15	$37
Gabapentin	22	$35

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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