Emmanuel Ugbarugba, MD
Internal Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1831353283
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 126 payments — averaging $21.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$899
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$233
- QOL Medical, LLC$229
- Sanofi$202
- Johnson & Johnson$178
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$152
- plus $777 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,59797%
- Education$733%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 46 | $899 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $233 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 7 | $229 |
| Sanofi | 6 | $202 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $178 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $152 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $59 |
| Merck | 3 | $58 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $55 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $37 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Organon | 1 | $20 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$2,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide | 11 | $18,394 |
| NexiumEsomeprazole Magnesium | 11 | $2,796 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 13 | $2,227 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 234 | $1,658 |
| Colestipol Hcl | 11 | $484 |
| Famotidine | 55 | $354 |
| Lidocaine Hcl ViscousLidocaine Hcl | 40 | $313 |
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 16 | $195 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 11 | $189 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 17 | $156 |
| Omeprazole | 29 | $121 |
| Metronidazole | 17 | $108 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Columbus
- Raghu KolluriColumbus$933K
- Antoinette PragalosCincinnati$27.8M
- Steven FolkerthBeavercreek$9.1M
- Charles EgerCincinnati$8.7M
- Vadim KoshkinCleveland$6.1M
- Nizar DaboulMaumee$4.7M
- Douglas LoganCincinnati$4.7M
- Seref BornovaliLoveland$4.4M
- Yevgeniy BukhmanCanton$3.7M
- Leela VrishabhendraCincinnati$3.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.