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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,548 in general payments to Karan Patel, MD across 68 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 Karan 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 Karan 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.

Karan Patel, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Chicago, ILNPI 1821443284

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $8,652 of the $12,548 with a category attached, or 69.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alphatec Spine, Inc at 42.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,649 and has fallen 95.5% since, to $298 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $12,158.

$12,548in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $184.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$5K
Globus Medical$2K
Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
Si-bone, Inc.$1K
Stryker$452
Johnson & Johnson$311
plus $1K from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$8,65269%
Food & beverage$3,89631%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	10	$5,360
Globus Medical(2 entities)	11	$2,333
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	13	$1,770
Si-bone, Inc.	11	$1,266
Stryker	6	$452
Johnson & Johnson	3	$311
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	3	$298
Zimvie Inc.	3	$275
Medtronic	2	$180
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$151
Augmedics Inc.	2	$53
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$52
Vericel Corporation	1	$27
Impactortho, Inc.	1	$21

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.

Other - Miscellaneous$5,019
Excelsius3D Imaging System$1,248
Mariner Deformity$1,148
7D Surgical FLASH Frame$1,061
Mariner MIS$389
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$334
FIBERGRAFT BG Morsels$279
7D Surgical System$259
iFuse Implant$258
Direct Look$234
Hollywood NanoMetalene$217
MLX$180
PCM$180
OssDsign Catalyst$155
O-ARM$151
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$151
C-TEK MAXAN$147
N/A$147
Excelsius - GPS$147
Teligen$130

How this compares

$12,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 64 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$136,209

Medicare patients

300

Services billed

1,006

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
Diclofenac Sodium	187	$4,226
Gabapentin	142	$2,936
Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic	41	$2,719
Methocarbamol	139	$2,692
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	160	$2,201
Meloxicam	435	$1,787
Lidocaine	18	$1,238
Tizanidine Hcl	97	$988
Pregabalin	14	$589
Baclofen	21	$316
Methylprednisolone	45	$289
Oxycodone Hcl	44	$252
Ibuprofen	16	$231
Tramadol Hcl	47	$162
Prednisone	48	$120

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Chicago

Frank PhillipsChicago$3.9M
Kern SinghChicago$1.3M
Christopher DewaldChicago$1.2M
Matthew ColmanChicago$334K
Arash SayariChicago$174K
Michael LeeChicago$107K
Gregory LopezChicago$88K
Howard AnChicago$82K
Purnendu GuptaChicago$33K
Neil MohileChicago$8K

See the full list for Illinois →

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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