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Ravindranath Patel, MD

Hematology-Oncology · Bakersfield, CANPI 1386631901

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,513,596in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 520 payments — averaging $2910.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$510K
  • Amgen$191K
  • AstraZeneca$187K
  • Novartis$86K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$67K
  • Pfizer$65K
  • plus $408K from 44 others
$9,944in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 6 payments — averaging $1657.33 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.

  • Eli Lilly$6K
  • Pfizer$4K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,72594%
  • Education$3286%

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

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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.

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

$1,513,596 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 53 hematology-oncology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,988,703
Medicare patients
1,118
Services billed
86,927

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
VerzenioAbemaciclib32$483,038
XtandiEnzalutamide28$344,661
IbrancePalbociclib13$204,038
MekinistTrametinib Dimethyl Sulfoxide12$184,487
TafinlarDabrafenib Mesylate12$169,922
GilotrifAfatinib Dimaleate14$143,287
SorafenibSorafenib Tosylate13$85,361
Imatinib Mesylate14$10,436
Letrozole232$4,204
Megestrol Acetate36$2,771
Ondansetron Hcl27$1,886
Prochlorperazine Maleate56$1,257
Gabapentin37$1,065
Anastrozole77$1,001
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron26$787

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
NovartisMekinist, Tafinlar$86,140$354,40924 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi$341$344,66128 claims
PfizerIbrance$65,237$204,03813 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Acyclovir$110$16715 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 53 hematology-oncology providers in California.

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