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Shefali Patel

Pediatrics · Richmond, TXNPI 1750356457

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,286in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $19.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Corium, LLC$488
  • Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$321
  • Tris Pharma Inc$156
  • Merck$146
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$144
  • UCB, Inc.$126
  • plus $903 from 19 others
$15in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $15.00 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.

  • GSK$15

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,16795%
  • Other$1195%

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
Corium, LLC32$488
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.17$321
Tris Pharma Inc7$156
Merck10$146
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.8$144
UCB, Inc.4$126
Baxter Healthcare1$119
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.1$97
Cranial Technologies, Inc6$94
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.6$85
Neos Therapeutics, LP6$80
GSK4$74
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.4$63
Medtronic1$53
AstraZeneca2$40
Genentech USA, Inc.2$35
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC1$26
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.1$21
Tactile Systems Technology Inc1$20
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.1$19
Shire North American Group Inc1$17
Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$16
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.1$16
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.1$14
Phadia US Inc.1$12

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

$2,286 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,361 pediatrics providers in Texas.

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