Vinus Patel
Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1942258918
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 68 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 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
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 80th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Tucson
- Rajesh JanardhananTucson$685K
- Mona SelejTucson$440K
- Franz RischardTucson$55K
- Nebojsa SkrepnikTucson$48K
- Christine OxleyTucson$44K
- Muhammad HusnainTucson$19K
- Steven WoolTucson$19K
- Surekha BandlamuriTucson$17K
- Augusto PosadasTucson$15K
- Lisa EmmansTucson$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.