Krisha Patel
Physician Assistant · San Antonio, TXNPI 1073081725
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 107 payments — averaging $18.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alkermes, Inc.$405
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$303
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$225
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$136
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$122
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$112
- plus $731 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,032100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alkermes, Inc. | 23 | $405 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 13 | $303 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $225 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $136 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 5 | $122 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $112 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $83 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $66 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $54 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $40 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 2 | $28 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $21 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $16 |
| Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ARISTADA$468
- REXULTI$123
- JORNAY PM$118
- ARISTADA INITIO$117
How this compares
$2,032 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 16 | $404 |
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.