Sushma Patel, MD
Radiation Oncology · Pinehurst, NCNPI 1023017191
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.3% of the total across 157 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 9.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 157 payments — averaging $20.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$318
- Merck$261
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$211
- Seagen Inc.$196
- Eisai Inc.$188
- Lilly USA, LLC$179
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,26399%
- Education$241%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 12 | $318 |
| Merck | 13 | $261 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $211 |
| Seagen Inc. | 12 | $196 |
| Eisai Inc. | 9 | $188 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $179 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 8 | $177 |
| Bayer | 10 | $172 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 7 | $142 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $142 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 6 | $128 |
| Zap Surgical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $116 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $104 |
| Amgen | 5 | $83 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $72 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $70 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $62 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $38 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Beigene USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Varian Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Forte Bio-pharma LLC | 1 | $2 |
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.
- Zap-X$121
How this compares
$3,287 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 199 radiation oncology providers in North Carolina.
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 | 13 | $281 |
| Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl | 18 | $187 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 20 | $179 |
| Nystatin | 13 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other radiation oncology in Pinehurst
- Jeffrey AckerPinehurst$4K
- Stephen KingPinehurst$4K
- Andrew WangChapel Hill$118K
- Volker StieberWinston Salem$99K
- Lewis SulmanDurham$54K
- Michael PapagikosWilmington$51K
- William LeeDurham$37K
- Matthew ManningGreensboro$33K
- Michael ChanWinston Salem$32K
- John KirkpatrickDurham$29K
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.