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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $39,559 in general payments to Nikunj Patel, MD across 140 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 Nikunj 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 Nikunj 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.

Nikunj Patel, MD

Diagnostic Radiology · la Jolla, CANPI 1659342723

Payments from drug & device makers

$39,559in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $282.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$12K
GE HealthCare$11K
Philips North America LLC$11K
Telix Pharmaceuticals$3K
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation$265
Barco, Inc.$215
plus $2K from 32 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,0003%
Speaking & faculty fees$2,5606%
Travel & lodging$30,12676%
Food & beverage$5,81015%
Education$210%
Gifts$420%

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
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	28	$11,815
GE HealthCare	28	$11,131
Philips North America LLC	12	$10,921
Telix Pharmaceuticals	13	$3,393
Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation	4	$265
Barco, Inc.	3	$215
Merck	9	$179
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	4	$167
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$126
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$125
Novartis	2	$121
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$121
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$118
Boston Scientific	1	$117
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$71
Eisai Inc.	4	$62
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	3	$61
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$41
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$41
United Imaging Healthcare North America LLC	1	$35
Sobi, Inc	1	$35
AbbVie	1	$33
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$31
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$30
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$28
Incyte Corporation	1	$28
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$26
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$25
Geron Corporation	1	$25
Johnson & Johnson	1	$25
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$24
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$23
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	1	$18
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$17
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$15
Bayer	1	$15
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$15

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.

How this compares

$39,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,537 diagnostic radiology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,900,269

Medicare patients

2,066

Services billed

8,817

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 diagnostic radiology in la Jolla

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Charles PeterfyKentfield$8.1M
Garry GoldStanford$6M
Gary UlanerLos Angeles$3.3M
Jerome BarakosSan Francisco$2.5M
Armonde BaghdanianLos Angeles$2.1M
Curtis LanglotzStanford$1.8M
Albert HsiaoSan Diego$1.6M
Matthew LungrenSan Francisco$1.6M

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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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