Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ajay Panchal

Surgery Amherst, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1053573444 CMS profile 1306885

350 Alberta Dr, Ste 205, Amherst, NY 14226

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General payments

$6,881

58 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$6,250

Paid to them · 1 record reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$886,124 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Ajay Panchal of Amherst, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,881 across 58 general payments and $6,250 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $886,124 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 85th percentile of Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,251 17
2024 General $3,521 17
2024 Research $6,250 1
2023 General $599 7
2022 General $264 4
2019 General $245 13

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ajay Panchal
  • Surgery median
  • Middle half of Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ajay Panchal were reported at $2,251. Among 17,702 Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $280 and the middle half received between $91 and $1,259.

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Year Ajay Panchal Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $245 $253 $82–$1,521 $163
2020 $0 $131 $40–$706 $114
2021 $0 $168 $50–$904 $132
2022 $264 $224 $76–$1,218 $149
2023 $599 $253 $82–$1,255 $160
2024 $3,521 $279 $90–$1,381 $164
2025 $2,251 $280 $91–$1,259 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $4,042 24 payments
  2. Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $1,356 25 payments
  3. Distalmotion US $1,293 2 payments
  4. Davol Inc. $88 1 payment
  5. Smith+Nephew, Inc. $51 3 payments
  6. Boston Scientific Corporation $21 1 payment
  7. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $16 1 payment
  8. Transenterix, Inc. $14 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Travel and Lodging $3,157 10 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $1,974 46 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $1,250 1 payment
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $500 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. DEXTER L6 ROBOT $1,293 2 payments
  2. Da Vinci Surgical System $856 24 payments
  3. DA VINCI SP $500 1 payment
  4. ENDO GIA ULTRA $127 1 payment
  5. V-LOC 180 $113 2 payments
  6. Signia $96 1 payment
  7. Phasix Mesh $88 1 payment
  8. PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy $33 2 payments
  9. EXALT Model D $21 1 payment
  10. AbsorbaTack $19 1 payment
  11. Other $82 5 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic, Inc. $6,250 1 payment

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 1 drug

Part D claims

34

Median for General Surgery: 59

Drug cost

$65

Median for General Surgery: $393

Branded share of claims

0%

Median for General Surgery: 28.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 34 $65

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 15,891 Part D prescribers listed as General Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 47 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$42,062

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

149

Average age 71

Services billed

268

67 women, 82 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 45%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Depression 24%
Diabetes 23%
Atrial fibrillation 23%
COPD 20%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

59 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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