Neal Patel, MD
Neurological Surgery · South Bend, INNPI 1346475951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (46.3%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Si-bone, Inc. at 44.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $4,743 and has fallen 81.8% since, to $864 in 2025.
Across 206 payments — averaging $60.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$6K
- Medtronic$4K
- Globus Medical$287
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$260
- Viz.ai, Inc.$198
- Carbofix Spine Inc$176
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,20042%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1591%
- Travel & lodging$1,28210%
- Food & beverage$5,74646%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 9 | $5,547 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 120 | $4,153 |
| Globus Medical | 9 | $287 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 6 | $260 |
| Viz.ai, Inc. | 1 | $198 |
| Carbofix Spine Inc | 2 | $176 |
| Irras USA, Inc. | 1 | $159 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Vertex | 2 | $141 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $126 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $125 |
| Stryker | 4 | $125 |
| Wenzel Spine, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $88 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $62 |
| Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation | 1 | $55 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $54 |
| Abbott | 1 | $48 |
| DJO, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Expanding Innovations, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Amgen | 1 | $35 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $26 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Longeviti Neuro Solutions Inc | 1 | $10 |
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.
- iFuse Implant$5,494
- MazorX - Renaissance$1,214
- UNID_PASS$283
- Viz.AI LVO$198
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$176
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$172
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$170
- IRRASflow$159
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM 6.0, SCREW, Carbon/PEEK, POLYAX., FEN., O 5.5 X 45 MM$147
- VADER PEDICLE SYSTEM, ROD, Carbon/PEEK, CURVED, 6.0 R450 X 200 MM$147
- KONG-TL VBR E, EXPANDABLE BODY, L, 19 MM X 27 - 37 MM$147
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, ROUND, L AND SCREW, 12 X 43 MM$147
- KONG-TL VBR, END PLATE, RECTANGULAR, M AND SCREW, 12 X 33 MM$147
- NVM5$138
- JOURNAVX$122
- VariLift-LX$117
- SYNCHROMEDII$102
How this compares
$12,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 112 neurological surgery providers in Indiana.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 23 | $177 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in South Bend
- Daniel FulkersonSouth Bend$92K
- Richard FesslerSouth Bend$33K
- Stephen SmithSouth Bend$31K
- Walter LangheinrichSouth Bend$16K
- Osmond WuSouth Bend$6K
- Jean-Pierre MobasserCarmel$3.5M
- Troy PaynerCarmel$803K
- Michael TurnerIndianapolis$522K
- Eric PottsCarmel$345K
- Souheil HaddadBloomington$161K
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.