Rupal Patel, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Greer, SCNPI 1699901496
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $9,500 of the $12,585 with a category attached, or 75.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 89.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $6,846 and has fallen 88.0% since, to $820 in 2025.
Across 48 payments — averaging $262.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Boston Scientific$641
- Innovation Technologies Inc$186
- Conmed Corporation$111
- Echosens North America, Inc.$94
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$91
- plus $204 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,1299%
- Food & beverage$1,95616%
- Education$9,50075%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 23 | $11,259 |
| Boston Scientific | 12 | $641 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $186 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $111 |
| Echosens North America, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $91 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $86 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $63 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $23 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$9,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,427
- Irrisept$171
- EXALT Model D$113
- AIRSEAL$111
How this compares
$12,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 34 surgical critical care providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 24 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical critical care in Greer
- Evert ErikssonCharleston$155K
- Bruce CrookesCharleston$150K
- Aaron MooreColumbia$46K
- Stephen FannCharleston$32K
- Heather EvansCharleston$28K
- William DuttonDaniel Island$14K
- Mohanned MallahCharleston$14K
- Phillip PrestColumbia$11K
- Bradley SnowGreenville$10K
- Jeremy ReevesColumbia$10K
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.