Barbara Amsler
Internal Medicine · Algonquin, ILNPI 1356351258
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.3% of the total across 124 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 124 payments — averaging $16.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$278
- Boehringer Ingelheim$277
- Novo Nordisk$259
- Amgen$245
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$175
- Pfizer$157
- plus $639 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,01599%
- Education$151%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 22 | $278 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 19 | $277 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $259 |
| Amgen | 17 | $245 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $175 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $157 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $126 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $96 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $79 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $41 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$2,030 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Other internal medicine in Algonquin
- Zaid JabbarOak Brook$1.2M
- Merle DiamondChicago$1.1M
- David ReckerLibertyville$868K
- Yazen JoudehOrland Park$661K
- Robert KushnerChicago$516K
- William CruikshankOak Lawn$431K
- Romeo UrsuaChicago$420K
- Shaina RozellChicago Ridge$366K
- Kristi Tough DesapriWinnetka$344K
- Peter O DonnellChicago$318K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.