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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $962 in general payments to Viraat Patel, MD across 32 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 Viraat 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 Viraat 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.

Viraat Patel, MD

Dermatology · Santa Monica, CANPI 1538548755

Payments from drug & device makers

$962in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $30.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pfizer$349
AbbVie$283
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$193
Lilly USA, LLC$40
Amgen$38
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$38
plus $22 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$94798%
Education$152%

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
Pfizer	14	$349
AbbVie(2 entities)	9	$283
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$193
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$40
Amgen	2	$38
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$38
Almirall LLC	1	$22

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

$962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,875 dermatology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$217,484

Medicare patients

491

Services billed

2,587

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
Dupixent PenDupilumab	23	$116,210
Clobetasol Propionate	127	$8,506
Tacrolimus	32	$5,436
Ketoconazole	268	$3,512
Azelaic Acid	21	$3,015
Fluorouracil	36	$2,674
Fluocinonide	57	$2,602
Calcipotriene	16	$2,542
Triamcinolone Acetonide	177	$2,166
Clindamycin Phosphate	56	$1,999
Metronidazole	35	$1,816
Tretinoin	26	$1,773
Ciclopirox	39	$1,724
Doxycycline Monohydrate	45	$1,353
Fluocinolone Acetonide	19	$998

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Santa Monica

Paul YamauchiSanta Monica$7.8M
David StollSanta Monica$2.3M
Ava ShambanSanta Monica$1.5M
Vivian LaquerIrvine$20.9M
Howard SofenLos Angeles$16.1M
Raja SivamaniSacramento$11.8M
Jennifer SoungSanta Ana$10.3M
Stacy SmithEncinitas$7.9M
Navid EzraThousand Oaks$7.8M
Paul WallaceBeverly Hills$7.1M

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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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