RxDoctor Payments Data

Kantilal Patel, MD

Internal Medicine · East Chicago, INNPI 1316015944

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,038in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $39.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$323
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$139
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$138
  • Johnson & Johnson$125
  • ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$100
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$42
  • plus $172 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,038100%

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

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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.

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

$1,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$112,451
Medicare patients
182
Services billed
1,143

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban35$16,583
TradjentaLinagliptin63$13,602
XareltoRivaroxaban51$8,779
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$5,099
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$4,360
Memantine Hcl ErMemantine Hcl11$3,932
Levothyroxine Sodium223$1,947
Pantoprazole Sodium152$1,796
Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,702
Enoxaparin Sodium15$1,420
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog11$1,278
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$1,246
Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa41$1,172
Potassium Chloride100$1,129
Tamsulosin Hcl136$891

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$125$8,77951 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$23$5,09912 claims
NovartisEntresto$323$4,36011 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 1,747 internal medicine providers in Indiana.

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