Viral Patel, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Sacramento, CANPI 1124555008
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $82.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$1K
- Abbott$1K
- Bolton Medical Inc$921
- Artivion, Inc.$650
- Edwards Lifesciences$507
- Atricure, Inc.$325
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,09617%
- Food & beverage$5,00478%
- Education$3165%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 10 | $1,236 |
| Abbott | 11 | $1,142 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 7 | $921 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 4 | $650 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $507 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 7 | $325 |
| Corcym Inc | 2 | $312 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $307 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $204 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $147 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $129 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $127 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $21 |
| Stryker | 1 | $18 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$516
- Relay Grafts$439
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$318
- Perceval$312
- AMPLATZER$258
- Impella$258
- Trifecta GT Tissue Heart Valve$167
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$166
- Progel Applicator Spray Tips$161
- SternaLock 360$127
- Avalus$126
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$119
- COSEAL$116
- Relay Plus$112
- EXALT Model D$108
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$107
How this compares
$6,417 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 546 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in California.
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Medicare billing
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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Sacramento
- Allen MorrisSacramento$350K
- Frank SlachmanSacramento$347K
- Bob KiaiiSacramento$247K
- Thomas FogartyPortola Valley$3.7M
- Steven GundryPalm Springs$1.6M
- Gregory FontanaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Gansevoort DunningtonSaint Helena$963K
- Armin KiankhooySaint Helena$941K
- Ara KlijianMurrieta$916K
- Fernando FleischmanLos Angeles$901K
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.