Ervin Woodle, MD
Transplant Surgery · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1679541510
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $146,821 of the $199,511 with a category attached, or 73.6%. Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among transplant surgery clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 122 payments — averaging $1635.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$140K
- Sanofi$35K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$9K
- Genentech, Inc.$8K
- CSL Behring$3K
- Novartis$2K
- plus $1K from 4 others
Across 59 payments — averaging $62,894 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.
- Novartis$1.2M
- Amgen$1.2M
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$646K
- Sanofi$252K
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$164K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$84K
- plus $151K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,32810%
- Speaking & faculty fees$146,82174%
- Travel & lodging$26,45713%
- Food & beverage$2,3811%
- Education$3,5252%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 51 | $140,347 |
| Sanofi | 35 | $35,455 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 15 | $8,940 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $8,383 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $3,414 |
| Novartis | 14 | $1,920 |
| One Lambda, Inc. | 1 | $900 |
| Merck | 2 | $113 |
| Biogen | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
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.
- THYMOGLOBULIN$174,983
- NULOJIX$3,525
- LEMTRADA$350
- REZUROCK$120
How this compares
$199,511 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 43 transplant surgery 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.
Other transplant surgery in Cincinnati
- Ralph QuillinCincinnati$132K
- David GerberCincinnati$9K
- Martha EstradaCincinnati$5K
- Steven RudichCincinnati$4K
- Amit TevarCincinnati$3K
- Alex ChangCincinnati$2K
- Philippe PaciCincinnati$1K
- Robert PlewsCincinnati$638
- Christine HaugenCincinnati$595
- Sara-Catherine ZinggCincinnati$515
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.