RxDoctor Payments Data

Reekesh Patel, MD

Pain Medicine · Hawthorne, CANPI 1043446982

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,813in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 595 payments — averaging $29.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$15K
  • Boston Scientific$708
  • Abbott$500
  • Nalu Medical, Inc.$486
  • Painteq LLC$429
  • Stryker$163
  • plus $409 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$17,583100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Medtronic(2 entities)521$15,118
Boston Scientific15$708
Abbott20$500
Nalu Medical, Inc.17$486
Painteq LLC5$429
Stryker1$163
Pfizer4$97
Kyocera Medical Technologies, Inc.1$95
Nevro Corp.5$86
Vertiflex, Inc.2$43
Vertos Medical, Inc.1$43
Novartis1$20
Amgen1$15
Spinesmith Holdings, LLC1$10

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

$17,813 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 840 pain medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$259,475
Medicare patients
323
Services billed
2,564

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.

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