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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,300 in general payments to Ushma Patel, MD across 486 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 Ushma 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 Ushma 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.

Ushma Patel, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Ashland, KYNPI 1043322175

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,404 of the $7,300 with a category attached, or 87.7%. Boston Scientific accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,300 and has fallen 88.8% since, to $257 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$7,300in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 486 payments — averaging $15.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$5K
Abbott$1K
Medtronic$367
Nevro Corp.$134
Vertos Medical, Inc.$113
Indivior Inc.$78
plus $197 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$89612%
Food & beverage$6,40488%

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
Boston Scientific	435	$4,996
Abbott	32	$1,414
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$367
Nevro Corp.	1	$134
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$113
Indivior Inc.	1	$78
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$44
AbbVie	2	$38
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$32
Avanos Medical	1	$29
Orexo US, Inc.	1	$24
Painteq LLC	1	$18
Pfizer	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

$7,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 104 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$97,413

Medicare patients

366

Services billed

1,272

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	1,918	$35,603
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	739	$18,280
Pregabalin	472	$12,400
Gabapentin	821	$8,594
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	18	$8,133
Duloxetine Hcl	245	$3,684
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	111	$3,625
Oxymorphone Hcl ErOxymorphone Hcl	12	$3,372
Tramadol Hcl	321	$3,325
Lidocaine	21	$2,347
Oxycodone Hcl	120	$2,218
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	53	$2,178
Fentanyl	12	$2,056
Tizanidine Hcl	291	$2,009
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	62	$1,619

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Ashland

Dhruv PandyaAshland$14K
Clay GuynnLexington$193K
Lester DuplechanCrestview Hills$28K
Darryl KaelinLouisville$19K
Raechel PercyLexington$8K
Melanie LedfordLexington$6K
Joseph PorterOwensboro$4K
Cecil HollenLexington$4K
Stephen PorterLexington$4K
Nicholas ElwertLexington$3K

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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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