Nirupa Patel
Rheumatology · New Orleans, LANPI 1851586218
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.7% of the total across 175 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for rheumatology clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $8,351.
Across 175 payments — averaging $38.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Novartis$1K
- GSK$955
- Amgen$855
- Sanofi$298
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$294
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,50996%
- Education$2944%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 50 | $1,584 |
| Novartis | 28 | $1,019 |
| GSK | 19 | $955 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 21 | $855 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $298 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $294 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $274 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $258 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $191 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $172 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 3 | $151 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 4 | $150 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 6 | $123 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $93 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 2 | $70 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $64 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $46 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Qiagen, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$6,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 88 rheumatology providers in Louisiana.
Other rheumatology in New Orleans
- Lesley SaketkooNew Orleans$97K
- Evangeline ScopelitisNew Orleans$96K
- William DavisNew Orleans$37K
- Barrett FordNew Orleans$16K
- Luis EspinozaNew Orleans$11K
- Mansour AlghamdiNew Orleans$9K
- Laura RiversNew Orleans$6K
- Shreya MadhavaramNew Orleans$5K
- Aaron BroadwellShreveport$1.6M
- Ladislas LazaroLafayette$265K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.