Has Pinkesh Prajapati, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,297 in general payments to Pinkesh Prajapati, MD across 50 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 Pinkesh Prajapati, 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 Pinkesh Prajapati, 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.

Pinkesh Prajapati, MD

Hospitalist · Palm Bay, FLNPI 1881027068

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,297in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $25.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$634
Novartis$327
AstraZeneca$143
Abiomed$115
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$64
Pfizer$14

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,297100%

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
Johnson & Johnson	26	$634
Novartis	16	$327
AstraZeneca	2	$143
Abiomed	1	$115
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$64
Pfizer	1	$14

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.

LOKELMA$124
Impella$115

How this compares

$1,297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,570 hospitalist providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$80,886

Medicare patients

284

Services billed

781

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
Cephalexin	11	$373
Pantoprazole Sodium	42	$243
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	12	$191
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	18	$104
Cefdinir	14	$88
Atorvastatin Calcium	15	$86
Ciprofloxacin Hcl	20	$81
Metoprolol Succinate	17	$80
Potassium Chloride	14	$69
Prednisone	37	$65
Hydralazine Hcl	12	$63
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$48
Oxycodone Hcl	23	$48
Metronidazole	12	$44
Amlodipine Besylate	13	$37

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospitalist in Palm Bay

Sandi ColemanMiami$2.6M
Miguel Mujica BaellaMiami$1.8M
Fernando PedrazaMiami$1.8M
Jose PineroMiami$1.1M
Jose NegrinHomestead$674K
Fernando Piedra ChavezMiami$554K
Felipe Gascon-RodonPembroke Pines$441K
Santos Reyes AlonsoMiami$429K
Murray EpsteinMiami$370K
Oliver AbelaFort Myers$193K

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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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