Charles Kistler
Family Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1083750673
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 578 payments — averaging $12.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- AbbVie$795
- Novartis$541
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$277
- Boehringer Ingelheim$276
- Merck$268
- plus $4K from 35 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,99199%
- Education$411%
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.
How this compares
$7,032 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
Other family medicine in Columbus
- Cathy GreiweColumbus$1.4M
- Brian BeesleyColumbus$1.4M
- Robert FloreaColumbus$955K
- Bryan FeldmanColumbus$404K
- Scott MerrymanColumbus$89K
- Michael ButcherCincinnati$18.3M
- William RandallKettering$7.5M
- Paul NugentCincinnati$4.9M
- Steve ChoiDayton$4.8M
- Martin SchearDayton$2.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.