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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,710 in general payments to Krishna Patel, MD across 25 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 Krishna 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 Krishna 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.

Krishna Patel, MD

Facial Plastic Surgery · Charleston, SCNPI 1215062153

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (52.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Synthes GmbH accounts for 75.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,453 and has fallen 83.8% since, to $398 in 2025.

$5,710in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $228.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Synthes GmbH$4K
Baxter Healthcare$604
AbbVie$221
Axogen$202
Smith+Nephew$129
Organogenesis Inc.$122
plus $113 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$3,00053%
Travel & lodging$1,06819%
Food & beverage$1,61328%
Education$301%

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
Synthes GmbH	6	$4,319
Baxter Healthcare	6	$604
AbbVie	6	$221
Axogen	2	$202
Smith+Nephew	2	$129
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$122
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$98
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$16

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

Too few facial plastic surgery providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$48,458

Medicare patients

Services billed

924

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.

Other facial plastic surgery in Charleston

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Patrick AngelosCharleston$615
Tyler RistCharleston$235
William WellsLexington$659K
Daniel BoxwellSeneca$7K
John RichColumbia$4K
Sam MeshkinfamFlorence$3K
Daniel GerryFort Mill$2K
Peter BondyConway$1K

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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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