Purav Desai, DO
Hospitalist · Chicago, ILNPI 1861068678
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $1,200 of the $1,783 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Elite Orthopedics, LLC accounts for 67.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,350 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $165 in 2024. Among hospitalist clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 21 payments — averaging $84.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$144
- Sanofi$110
- Pfizer$65
- Novartis$55
- Amgen$55
- plus $154 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$58333%
- Education$1,20067%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 1 | $1,200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $144 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $110 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $65 |
| Novartis | 3 | $55 |
| Amgen | 3 | $55 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Gilead | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 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
$1,783 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,328 hospitalist providers in Illinois.
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 hospitalist in Chicago
- Salih SamoChicago$251K
- Eric GluckChicago$80K
- Alvin ThomasChicago$28K
- Tasmeen HussainChicago$18K
- Ronnie MandalChicago$10K
- Bobby DiniotisChicago$9K
- Nael GharbiChicago$8K
- Keith SummaChicago$7K
- Alicia RauhChicago$6K
- Anish MunagalaChicago$5K
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.