Vinus Patel
Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1942258918
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $18.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$152
- Corcept Therapeutics$118
- Amgen$118
- Lilly USA, LLC$105
- Boehringer Ingelheim$88
- Merck$78
- plus $582 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,242100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $152 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 4 | $118 |
| Amgen | 7 | $118 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $105 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 4 | $88 |
| Merck | 5 | $78 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $77 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 3 | $69 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 3 | $51 |
| Lifescan, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Tucson
- Robert MutterperlTucson$5.3M
- Nebojsa SkrepnikTucson$4.7M
- Franz RischardTucson$3.7M
- Girish KaramchandaniTucson$2.9M
- Siddharth SinghalTucson$1.3M
- Rajesh JanardhananTucson$983K
- Carl DienerTucson$750K
- Roxana RodriguezTucson$547K
- Mona SelejTucson$440K
- Muhammad HusnainTucson$359K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.