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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,060 in general payments to Tapan Patel, MD across 16 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 Tapan 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 Tapan 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.

Tapan Patel, MD

Otolaryngology · North Haven, CTNPI 1225424252

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,774 of the $4,060 with a category attached, or 68.3%. AbbVie accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,171 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $34 in 2025.

$4,060in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $253.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$3K
Stryker$431
Acclarent, Inc$294
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$180
Neurent Medical Limited$130
Xoran Technologies LLC$83
plus $168 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,77468%
Food & beverage$91523%
Education$3719%

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
AbbVie	2	$2,774
Stryker	2	$431
Acclarent, Inc	2	$294
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$180
Neurent Medical Limited	2	$130
Xoran Technologies LLC	1	$83
GSK	1	$79
Optinose US, Inc.	2	$43
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$25
Medtronic	1	$21

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

$4,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 119 otolaryngology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$194,052

Medicare patients

389

Services billed

1,275

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
Ipratropium Bromide	84	$4,348
Omeprazole	164	$3,006
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	18	$2,134
Azelastine Hcl	62	$1,684
Mometasone Furoate	30	$1,399
Fluticasone Propionate	88	$1,258
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	26	$1,011
Famotidine	59	$734
Doxycycline Hyclate	67	$492
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	55	$328
Prednisone	108	$271
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	35	$111
Methylprednisolone	23	$107
Mupirocin	23	$91
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	24	$89

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in North Haven

Paul AlbertiNorth Haven$5K
Sara PaiNew Haven$160K
Richard ManesNew Haven$67K
Howard StupakWestport$48K
Belachew TessemaFarmington$45K
Seth BrownFarmington$39K
Howard BoeyNew Haven$19K
Mahesh BhayaWaterbury$11K
Neil SchiffWaterbury$10K
Benjamin WycherlyFarmington$8K

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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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