Rupa Patel
Infectious Disease · Saint Louis, MONPI 1740347673
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $67,102 of the $95,853 with a category attached, or 70.0%. Viiv Healthcare Company accounts for 73.7% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $32,493 and has fallen 79.9% since, to $6,533 in 2025. Among infectious disease clinicians in MO 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 87 payments — averaging $1101.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$71K
- Gilead$15K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$8K
- Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.$2K
Across 19 payments — averaging $14,197 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.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$270K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$67,10270%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,45422%
- Travel & lodging$4,7265%
- Food & beverage$2,0762%
- Education$4951%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 53 | $70,615 |
| Gilead | 25 | $15,163 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 8 | $8,324 |
| Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. | 1 | $1,750 |
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
$95,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 177 infectious disease providers in Missouri.
Other infectious disease in Saint Louis
- Robert BelsheSaint Louis$382K
- Erik DubberkeSaint Louis$144K
- Michael DiamondSaint Louis$44K
- Andrej SpecSaint Louis$26K
- William PowderlySaint Louis$20K
- Elvin GengSaint Louis$15K
- Matifadza HlatshwayoSaint Louis$11K
- Bernard CaminsSaint Louis$11K
- Joseph CherabieSaint Louis$9K
- Rachel PrestiSaint Louis$9K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.