Has Neel Patel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,468 in general payments to Neel Patel, MD across 175 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Neel Patel, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Neel Patel, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Neel Patel, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Charlotte, NCNPI 1104246115

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,468in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 175 payments — averaging $54.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Biotronik Inc.$2K
Abbott$2K
Biosense Webster, Inc.$1K
Medtronic$1K
Boston Scientific$765
Atricure, Inc.$664
plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,50437%
Food & beverage$5,83062%
Education$1341%

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
Biotronik Inc.	29	$2,478
Abbott	22	$1,952
Biosense Webster, Inc.	50	$1,366
Medtronic	17	$1,144
Boston Scientific	11	$765
Atricure, Inc.	14	$664
Philips North America LLC	2	$160
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	1	$143
Abiomed	4	$142
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$122
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	8	$120
Cardiva Medical, Inc.	2	$116
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	2	$51
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	2	$46
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$39
Cvrx, Inc.	2	$31
Novartis	1	$30
Cordis US CORP.	2	$29
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$27
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$25
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$20

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.

Acticor 7 VR-T DX$1,522
Edora 8 DR-T$1,377
Solia$1,377
AVEIR$1,266
Rivacor 7 DR-T$782
BioMonitor$782
Sentus$595
Plexa ProMRI$595
EVERA MRI XT DR SURESCAN$573
Carto 3$541
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$374
OPTIMIZER$287
WATCHMAN FLX$156
AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$151
AMVIA EDGE$145
Selectra$145
Farapulse$145
(9712) Azurion 5 M12$145
ENSITE PRECISION$134
GENERAL - THERAPIES$133

How this compares

$9,468 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 727 cardiovascular disease providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$413,294

Medicare patients

5,199

Services billed

11,217

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
EliquisApixaban	241	$208,195
Sucralfate	93	$3,204
Amiodarone Hcl	95	$2,261
Flecainide Acetate	34	$2,219
Colchicine	86	$1,111
Metoprolol Succinate	62	$758
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl	32	$535
Omeprazole	68	$432
SotalolSotalol Hcl	20	$358
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	13	$136
Carvedilol	11	$70

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other cardiovascular disease in Charlotte

Michael RinaldiCharlotte$3.3M
Charles SimontonCharlotte$970K
Markus SchererCharlotte$675K
Sanjeev GulatiCharlotte$563K
Richard BrowneCharlotte$379K
Stephen RennysonCharlotte$348K
Rohit MehtaCharlotte$261K
John AlexanderDurham$76.8M
Christopher GrangerDurham$24.7M
Jonathan PicciniDurham$14.3M

See the full list for North Carolina →

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.

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