Nimit Patel, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · North Franklin, CTNPI 1952664740
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (47.8%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Arthrex accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 112 payments — averaging $242.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$18K
- Kairos Surgical Inc$4K
- Stryker$3K
- Vericel Corporation$666
- Catalyst Orthoscience$231
- Coastal Medical Technologies LLC$198
- plus $650 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5502%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,00048%
- Travel & lodging$5,27219%
- Food & beverage$5,24819%
- Education$3,13112%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 42 | $18,081 |
| Kairos Surgical Inc | 21 | $4,391 |
| Stryker | 30 | $2,984 |
| Vericel Corporation | 4 | $666 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 4 | $231 |
| Coastal Medical Technologies LLC | 2 | $198 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $189 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $177 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $142 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $38 |
| Coastal Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $36 |
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.
- MAKO$1,963
- MACI$550
- ARTHREX$262
- GAMMA$169
- T2$165
- Regeneten$142
- FREEDOM WRIST$142
- PYRO MCP$142
- TSSM - TOTAL SHOULDER SYSTEM METAL$142
- TITAN-SHOULDER$142
- External Fixation System$142
- TRITANIUM$138
- Persona MC$114
- Catalyst TSR$111
- TRIATHLON$100
How this compares
$27,201 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 273 orthopaedic surgery providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 71 | $954 |
| Celecoxib | 25 | $493 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 39 | $269 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $180 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $151 |
| Meloxicam | 54 | $118 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $75 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $72 |
| Amoxicillin | 14 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in North Franklin
- Peter WhangNew Haven$1.8M
- Paul SethiGreenwich$1.5M
- James YueShelton$1.3M
- Robert DeveneyDanbury$907K
- James PaceFarmington$721K
- Isaac MossFarmington$676K
- David FrumbergNew Haven$288K
- John KeggiMiddlebury$264K
- Lauren GeaneyFarmington$263K
- Robert StantonFairfield$199K
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.