Pankaj Patel, MD
Gastroenterology · Sebring, FLNPI 1053374256
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 218 payments — averaging $21.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Pfizer$282
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$263
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$248
- Johnson & Johnson$220
- Gilead$181
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,63998%
- Education$842%
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(2 entities) | 127 | $2,417 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $282 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $263 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $248 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 12 | $220 |
| Gilead | 5 | $181 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $174 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 7 | $143 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Shionogi Inc | 4 | $111 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $102 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 1 | $53 |
| Vivus LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Mauna Kea Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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
$4,723 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,388 gastroenterology providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 571 | $8,831 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 260 | $5,158 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 192 | $2,866 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 28 | $1,675 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 64 | $794 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 26 | $718 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 42 | $462 |
| Famotidine | 31 | $230 |
| Omeprazole | 18 | $205 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 18 | $65 |
| Metronidazole | 13 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Sebring
- Jose NietoSebring$573K
- Howard SchwartzTavernier$38.8M
- Guy NeffSarasota$17.6M
- Syed LateefClermont$6.4M
- Jeffrey SchneiderCoral Springs$6M
- Zaid RanaMiami$5.4M
- David NelsonGainesville$5.2M
- Alan WeintraubTampa$4.7M
- Curtis FreedlandNew Port Richey$4.5M
- Paul HellsternCrystal River$4.5M
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.