Naren Patel
Family Medicine · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1215914650
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 69 payments — averaging $13.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$211
- Novo Nordisk$158
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$96
- Novartis$73
- Amgen$51
- Dexcom, Inc.$38
- plus $322 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$950100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 17 | $211 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $158 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $96 |
| Novartis | 4 | $73 |
| Amgen | 4 | $51 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $38 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $29 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $26 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $26 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $23 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$103
How this compares
$950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.
Other family medicine in Fort Wayne
- Thomas KintanarFort Wayne$185K
- Brianna SerbusFort Wayne$174K
- Brian AdamsFort Wayne$173K
- Charles CoatsFort Wayne$38K
- Beulah PenumudiFort Wayne$38K
- Blair BrengleIndianapolis$10.6M
- Laura HelmanMishawaka$4M
- J Christopher SartoreEvansville$3.9M
- Hubert ReyesEvansville$3.2M
- David SchultzEvansville$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.