Has Rupal Patel, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,971 in general payments to Rupal Patel, MD across 35 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Rupal Patel, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Rupal Patel, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Rupal Patel, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Richmond, VANPI 1790006609

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,971in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $199.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Stryker$961
Fortis Surgical, LLC$667
Conformis, Inc.$269
Microport Orthopedics Inc$99
Zimmer Biomet$48
plus $23 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,95771%
Food & beverage$1,34719%
Education$66710%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	16	$4,904
Stryker	12	$961
Fortis Surgical, LLC	1	$667
Conformis, Inc.	2	$269
Microport Orthopedics Inc	1	$99
Zimmer Biomet	2	$48
Johnson & Johnson	1	$23

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.

ATTUNE$3,960
ACTIS$3,423
INHANCE$638
MAKO$355
iTotal PS$144
Hip, Identity PS$125
GAMMA$109

How this compares

$6,971 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 473 orthopaedic surgery providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$226,418

Medicare patients

446

Services billed

10,330

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
Lidocaine	13	$883
Celecoxib	27	$674
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	131	$609
Oxycodone Hcl	157	$607
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	107	$599
Ibuprofen	35	$416
Diclofenac Sodium	30	$412
Naproxen	45	$404
Tramadol Hcl	105	$313
Baclofen	13	$283
Prednisone	117	$264
Gabapentin	28	$257
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	26	$217
Cephalexin	24	$191
Methylprednisolone	11	$88

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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