Physician profile

Mehul M Patel

Internal Medicine · Chattanooga, TN

NPI 1689931404

$2,294.46

in general payments reported to CMS, 2019-2025

10 companies · $770 in 2025

The $770 reported for 2025 was more than what 81% of Internal Medicine providers received nationally (typical 2025 total: $156).

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Payments by year

General payments by program year, as reported to CMS.

What the payments were for

Nature of payment as categorized by the reporting companies: meals, consulting, travel, and so on.

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Payment typeAmount (2023-2025)
Travel and Lodging$1,922.65
Food and Beverage$123.67

Payment-type detail covers 2023-2025; earlier years are included in totals but not broken out here.

Who reported paying

General payments only, as reported to CMS. Product names cover 2023-2025.

CompanyGeneral paymentsYearsTop products
Medtronic, INC. $1,152.77 2023 Corevalve Evolut R
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $769.88 2025 Edwards Sapien 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve (Thv)
Cvrx, INC. $98.26 2024 Barostim Neo System
Abiomed $82.62 2019
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, INC $53.25 2019
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC $48.00 2019
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $33.90 2019-2020
Sumitomo Pharma America, INC. $25.41 2023 Gemtesa
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC $19.89 2019
Zoll Services LLC (A/K/A Zoll Lifecor Corp) $10.48 2020

Drugs and devices associated with these payments

CMS records which products a payment was associated with, not how the money was allocated. Association is not allocation: one payment can be associated with several products, and a product listing does not mean the payment was made because of that product. Product detail covers 2023-2025.

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Payment summary

Mehul M Patel

$2,294.46

in general payments reported 2019-2025

Years
2019-2025
Top company
Medtronic, INC.
Context
The $770 reported for 2025 was more than what 81% of Internal Medicine providers received nationally (typical 2025 total: $156).

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025. Payments are legal and often routine.

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.