Has Aristide Merola received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $133,268 in general payments to Aristide Merola across 263 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aristide Merola did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aristide Merola come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aristide Merola

Neurology · Columbus, OHNPI 1902265077

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Abbott accounts for 86.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $63,781 and has fallen 65.4% since, to $22,086 in 2022. Among neurology clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$133,268in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 263 payments — averaging $506.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$116K
Boston Scientific$7K
AbbVie$4K
Biogen$3K
H. Lundbeck A S$2K
Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.$2K
plus $446 from 1 others

$288,648in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $7040.21 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

AbbVie$162K
Lundbeck LLC$78K
Boston Scientific$47K
Abbott$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$65,46449%
Speaking & faculty fees$53,12340%
Travel & lodging$10,5398%
Food & beverage$4,1423%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Abbott	238	$115,674
Boston Scientific	11	$7,107
AbbVie	5	$3,789
Biogen	2	$2,551
H. Lundbeck A S	1	$2,200
Surgical Information Sciences, Inc.	1	$1,500
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$446

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$133,268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 702 neurology providers in Ohio.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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