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

VIJAYKUMAR PATEL

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)

NPI
1922108976
CMS profile
360174
Location
AUGUSTA, GA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$18,375.52

  • Reported across 147 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$615.86

14 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 $615.86 14

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
ATRICURE, INC. $239.18 5
ABIOMED $132.36 2
Inari Medical, Inc. $128.00 1
Abbott Laboratories $85.48 4
Electromed, Inc. $15.47 1
Solventum Corporation $15.37 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $3,075.48 33
PY2019 $7,631.66 49
PY2020 $172.22 2
PY2021 $1,472.46 14
PY2022 $2,314.60 14
PY2023 $3,093.24 21
PY2024 $615.86 14

Payment records · PY2024 (14)

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
Abbott Laboratories $24.22 02/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125338474 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $21.41 02/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125338476 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $17.55 05/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125338478 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $22.30 08/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125338480 CMS
ABIOMED $61.18 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142213964 CMS
ABIOMED $71.18 05/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1142213962 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $164.64 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132833138 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $19.38 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132899162 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $19.38 07/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132899090 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $21.04 09/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132894423 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $14.74 10/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132887892 CMS
Electromed, Inc. $15.47 12/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1137908618 CMS
Inari Medical, Inc. $128.00 03/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140154592 CMS
Solventum Corporation $15.37 02/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144077432 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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