Neel Patel, MD
Sports Medicine · Baytown, TXNPI 1396198933
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $278.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$6K
- DJO, LLC$5K
- Smith+Nephew$3K
- Stryker$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,50023%
- Grants$5,00021%
- Travel & lodging$3,18313%
- Food & beverage$3,02512%
- Education$7,52831%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 6 | $6,337 |
| DJO, LLC | 2 | $5,000 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $3,472 |
| Stryker | 26 | $2,907 |
| Arthrex | 22 | $1,526 |
| Eclipse Technology Solutions Inc. | 2 | $1,216 |
| Paladin Technology Solutions | 1 | $1,200 |
| Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC | 1 | $1,116 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 8 | $346 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 3 | $248 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $203 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $156 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $83 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $17 |
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.
- MACI$6,312
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$1,179
- TORNIER FLEX$627
- NA$253
- ICONIX$213
- Other - Miscellaneous$176
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$138
- HIPCHECK$133
- VAPR$127
- Zynrelef$105
How this compares
$24,236 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 437 sports medicine providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 172 | $363 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Baytown
- Joshua RussellBaytown$46K
- Timothy VachrisAustin$5.7M
- Thomas DeberardinoSan Antonio$3.5M
- Mark HutchensAustin$2.5M
- Robert ScheinbergDallas$2.2M
- Marc LabbeThe Woodlands$2M
- Walter LoweHouston$1.4M
- Reed BartzSunnyvale$1.2M
- David BrownHouston$920K
- James GregoryHouston$848K
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.