Pooja Patel, APRN
Family · Richmond, VANPI 1306605423
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $65.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Novo Nordisk$201
- Edwards Lifesciences$180
- Novartis$174
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$170
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$151
- plus $939 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,39947%
- Food & beverage$2,70953%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $3,294 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $201 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $180 |
| Novartis | 7 | $174 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $170 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Bayer | 6 | $123 |
| Abbott | 2 | $76 |
| Merck | 4 | $66 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $60 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $51 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $42 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $34 |
| GSK | 2 | $33 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $25 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,665
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,401
- Farapulse$145
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$136
- Spinal-Stim$123
- Wegovy$109
- Evoke$105
How this compares
$5,108 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,332 family providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $27 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Richmond
- Hochong Smith GillesRichmond$131K
- Kasiah BanksRichmond$29K
- Johanna ChristensenRichmond$24K
- Megan ZoltyRichmond$11K
- Andrea CottonVirginia Beach$696K
- Susan MooreWytheville$438K
- Ellen WermterCharlottesville$251K
- Dana StallingsFranklin$225K
- Jocelyn BrackettHerndon$199K
- Sean OlaughlinMidlothian$110K
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.