RxDoctor Payments Data

Luv Patel, MD

Retina Specialist · Southlake, TXNPI 1689061442

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.3% of the total across 62 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,332 and has fallen 51.3% since, to $649 in 2025.

$2,798in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $45.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$520
  • AbbVie$438
  • Alimera Sciences, Inc.$256
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$250
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$207
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$182
  • plus $945 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,77899%
  • Education$211%

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

$2,798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 108 retina specialist providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,320,484
Medicare patients
537
Services billed
9,893

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
Prednisolone Acetate172$7,322
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl83$1,967
Difluprednate20$1,909
Ketorolac Tromethamine33$725
Atropine Sulfate13$529
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat35$347
Latanoprost18$157

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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