Meelan Patel, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Garden City, NYNPI 1801046826
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,000 of the $6,448 with a category attached, or 62.0%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 62.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,378, 4.1 times the $1,057 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic trauma clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $6,990.
Across 64 payments — averaging $100.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$1K
- Encore Medical, LP$727
- Johnson & Johnson$499
- Bioventus LLC$86
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$41
- plus $57 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00062%
- Travel & lodging$61610%
- Food & beverage$1,83228%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $4,030 |
| Stryker | 34 | $1,008 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 5 | $727 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $499 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $86 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$573
- AXSOS$138
- ADAPT$129
- TFN-Advance$123
- DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$116
- NA$112
How this compares
$6,448 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 44 orthopaedic trauma providers in New York.
Medicare billing
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 orthopaedic trauma in Garden City
- David HelfetNew York$265K
- Philipp LeuchtNew York$260K
- Matthew SullivanEast Syracuse$63K
- Conor GarryNew York$63K
- Chima NwankwoBrooklyn$52K
- Brian PageNew York$43K
- Emil AzerEast Syracuse$42K
- Kathryn BarthNew York$38K
- Justin VaidaRochester$35K
- Michael LinnBay Shore$27K
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.