Has Shashikant Patil, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $11,185 in general payments to Shashikant Patil, MD across 49 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 Shashikant Patil, 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 Shashikant Patil, 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.

Shashikant Patil, MD

Neurological Surgery · Athens, GANPI 1003027905

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,185in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 49 payments — averaging $228.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$6K
Globus Medical$4K
Spinal Elements, Inc.$768
Zimmer Biomet$189
Stryker$103
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$93

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,25020%
Travel & lodging$6,21556%
Food & beverage$2,53123%
Education$1892%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	27	$6,252
Globus Medical	11	$3,781
Spinal Elements, Inc.	6	$768
Zimmer Biomet	3	$189
Stryker	1	$103
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$93

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.

Pulse$3,031
CD HORIZON$1,721
CLYDESDALE PTC SPINAL SYSTEM$1,087
CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$1,050
Medical Device$537
XLIF$447
PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System$290
RELINE$127
EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$103

How this compares

$11,185 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 201 neurological surgery providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$287,447

Medicare patients

315

Services billed

924

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	93	$819
Pregabalin	16	$395
Tizanidine Hcl	40	$375
Gabapentin	19	$317
Methocarbamol	38	$289
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	23	$218
Oxycodone Hcl	27	$176
Meloxicam	27	$42
Tramadol Hcl	14	$34

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Athens

Bryan BarnesAthens$134K
Harlan BrunerAthens$84K
Viren VasudevaAthens$22K
Regis HaidAtlanta$25.5M
Rishi GuptaMarietta$3.5M
John CowanRome$3.2M
Thomas MorrisonAtlanta$2.8M
Arthur GrigorianAtlanta$2M
Christopher TomarasAtlanta$1.5M
Betsy GrunchGainesville$1.2M

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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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