Preet Patel, MD
Pain Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1194177816
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $128.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
- Nevro Corp.$2K
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$1K
- Boston Scientific$643
- Painteq LLC$440
- Abbott$301
- plus $1K from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$16
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$98413%
- Food & beverage$5,17370%
- Education$1,27917%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 5 | $1,895 |
| Nevro Corp. | 19 | $1,572 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 6 | $1,380 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $643 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $440 |
| Abbott | 5 | $301 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $292 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 3 | $180 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $129 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $123 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $120 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Merck | 1 | $20 |
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.
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,876
- Omnia$1,260
- Evoke SCS$1,218
- PAINTEQ$440
- Intracept$306
- Senza$174
- Proclaim IPG$161
- StimQ Receiver Stimulator Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- StimQ Freedom-4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w/ Receiver$129
- StimQ Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- Freedom 4A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- Freedom 8A Receiver Kit Channel A US w Receiver$129
- INTELLIS$127
- SPRINT PNS System$123
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$120
- Qutenza$117
- Evoke$117
- VANTA ADAPTIVESTIM$115
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$113
- Nalu Neurostimulation System$104
How this compares
$7,436 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.
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.
Other pain medicine in Los Angeles
- Francis FerranteLos Angeles$75K
- Eric GrigsbyNapa$3.2M
- Jason PopeSanta Rosa$2.8M
- Javid GhandehariSanta Monica$2.7M
- Alexander HerselThousand Oaks$2.1M
- Krishnan ChakravarthyTemecula$1.9M
- Kasra AmirdelfanWalnut Creek$1.7M
- Ramana NaiduLarkspur$1.6M
- Foead GeulaStudio City$1.3M
- Xiang QianRedwood City$941K
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.