Rahul Phatak, MD
Hospitalist · Saint Louis, MONPI 1124086038
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 8 payments — averaging $75.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Hill-rom Services, Inc$250
- AstraZeneca$233
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$46
- Edwards Lifesciences$27
- Merck$19
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$15
- plus $11 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$25042%
- Food & beverage$35158%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hill-rom Services, Inc | 1 | $250 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $233 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $27 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $15 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$601 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 712 hospitalist providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 18 | $9,494 |
| Potassium Chloride | 16 | $438 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 19 | $349 |
| Furosemide | 17 | $161 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 19 | $84 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 21 | $83 |
| Prednisone | 21 | $60 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $45 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 11 | $38 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 14 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hospitalist in Saint Louis
- Christopher SparrowSaint Louis$490K
- John MwangiSaint Louis$89K
- Gian MusarraSaint Louis$25K
- Ghassan DaherSaint Louis$23K
- Salman SyedSaint Louis$23K
- Marsha SchulteSaint Louis$23K
- Ijeoma NwelueSaint Louis$12K
- Arun MannemSaint Louis$6K
- Vasanthan KuppuswamySaint Louis$5K
- Yamuna KondapallySaint Louis$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.