Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

PINAKIN R PATEL

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Nephrology

NPI
1265531842
CMS profile
1168592
Location
HOUSTON, TX

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$650.93

  • Reported across 20 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$130.90

6 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $130.90 6

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Novo Nordisk AS $76.54 3
Abbott Laboratories $54.36 3

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $15.70 1
PY2021 $250.57 4
PY2022 $16.64 1
PY2023 $24.43 1
PY2024 $212.69 7
PY2025 $130.90 6

Payment records · PY2025 (6)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 20192021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $18.10 09/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240670061 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $19.24 09/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240670188 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $17.02 10/01/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1240670653 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $24.74 03/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1189026642 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $27.99 05/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1189107578 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $23.81 11/12/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1188825787 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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