Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

SANATKUMAR D PATEL

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine

NPI
1336155597
CMS profile
196759
Location
BELLFLOWER, CA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$2,094.80

  • Reported across 130 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$200.80

17 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

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $200.80 17

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Novo Nordisk AS $132.24 14
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $40.17 2
Lilly USA, LLC $28.39 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $239.06 15
PY2019 $302.37 17
PY2020 $371.66 11
PY2021 $557.85 31
PY2022 $230.21 19
PY2023 $192.85 20
PY2024 $200.80 17

Payment records · PY2024 (17)

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

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Lilly USA, LLC $28.39 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135342794 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $18.78 04/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141594068 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $21.39 08/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1141953347 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $5.44 01/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1097073534 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $4.32 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1097554746 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $7.02 02/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096785825 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $4.41 02/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1097654956 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $5.56 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096932995 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $24.37 05/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096889476 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $8.86 05/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096889644 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $6.56 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096572940 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $9.22 08/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096907353 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $10.17 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096901385 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $7.88 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096608648 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $5.56 10/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096926660 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $26.03 11/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1096597320 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $6.84 12/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1097562971 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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