Snehal Patel
Surgery · New York, NYNPI 1841272689
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $558 of the $738 with a category attached, or 75.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 75.7% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,254.
Across 7 payments — averaging $105.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$558
- Abbott$180
Across 16 payments — averaging $6072.32 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.
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$97K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$55876%
- Food & beverage$18024%
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 | 5 | $558 |
| Abbott | 2 | $180 |
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
$738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,596 surgery providers in New York.
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.
Other surgery in New York
- Cheguevara AfanehNew York$1.4M
- Flavio Malcher Martins de OliveiraNew York$695K
- Yuri NovitskyNew York$548K
- Rasa ZarnegarNew York$478K
- Tanuja DamaniNew York$459K
- Rache SimmonsNew York$371K
- Marina KurianNew York$328K
- Megan JenkinsNew York$290K
- Brian JacobNew York$225K
- Robin BlackstoneNew York$174K
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.