Question 1

Has Tarak Patel received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $618,991 in general payments to Tarak Patel across 519 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Tarak Patel did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Tarak Patel come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Merck	26	$352,547
Harmony Biosciences LLC	99	$144,190
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	51	$88,184
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	6	$17,641
Astrazeneca UK Limited	4	$7,823
Sanofi	22	$1,886
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	39	$1,162
GSK	59	$917
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	23	$609
Baxter Healthcare	27	$578
Electromed, Inc.	31	$423
Amgen	17	$314
Pharming Healthcare, Inc.	10	$273
Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC	15	$270
Philips North America LLC	16	$266
Biogen	10	$256
Advanced Respiratory, Inc	9	$185
Sobi, Inc	6	$147
Genentech USA, Inc.	6	$115
AbbVie	5	$105
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	2	$104
ITF Therapeutics LLC	3	$87
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	1	$87
Novartis	4	$86
Pfizer	1	$80
Covis Pharma GmbH	3	$77
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$77
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$68
Insmed, Inc.	3	$64
Alk-abello, Inc	2	$48
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$46
Phadia US Inc.	2	$46
Kaleo, Inc.	2	$39
Resmed Corp	1	$33
3b Medical, Inc.	1	$28
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	1	$26
Photocure Inc	1	$24
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	1	$17
Lucid Diagnostics Inc.	1	$16
Itamar Medical Inc	1	$16
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$15

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