Neil Patel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Southlake, TXNPI 1942511290
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 139 payments — averaging $430.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$40K
- Globus Medical$9K
- Cerapedics Inc.$6K
- Pylant Medical$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$924
- Arthrex$712
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$11,25046%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5006%
- Travel & lodging$7,28330%
- Food & beverage$4,54418%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 69 | $39,814 |
| Globus Medical | 19 | $9,275 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 6 | $6,426 |
| Pylant Medical | 4 | $1,035 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 6 | $924 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $712 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $392 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 5 | $285 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $175 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $160 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $117 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Augmedics Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Abbott | 2 | $51 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ELSA$7,000
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$4,398
- i-FACTOR Putty$2,028
- ALIF$1,288
- iFuse Implant$896
- PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$867
- CREO$675
- RISE$675
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$658
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$640
- CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$458
- Senza$268
- Medical Devices$262
- UNID_PASS$228
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$154
- ReActiv8$125
- ANTERALIGN SPINAL SYSTEM WITH TITAN NANOLOCK SURFACE TECHNOLOGY$124
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$123
- PICO Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy$117
- ViviGen$112
How this compares
$59,798 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 207 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Texas.
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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 surgery of the spine in Southlake
- Kevin JamesSouthlake$701K
- Randall DryerAustin$2.9M
- Craig KuhnsAustin$2.7M
- David WimberleyHouston$2.2M
- Jeffrey PhelpsNorth Richland Hills$1.9M
- Eric WieserArlington$1.5M
- Richard GuyerPlano$1.3M
- Andrew ClavennaDallas$1.3M
- Ivan ChengKyle$1.2M
- Stephen TolhurstFlower Mound$1.1M
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.