Harish Thaker
Hospitalist · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1912971086
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.1% of the total across 74 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 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,699 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $69 in 2021. Among hospitalist clinicians in FL 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.
Across 74 payments — averaging $26.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- UCB, Inc.$278
- Amgen$258
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$226
- Sanofi$200
- Johnson & Johnson$125
- Pfizer$125
- plus $747 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$181%
- Food & beverage$1,94299%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $278 |
| Amgen | 10 | $258 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 9 | $226 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $200 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $125 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $125 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 5 | $110 |
| Novartis | 4 | $72 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $68 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Tanabe Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Bayer | 2 | $32 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Biogen | 1 | $25 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- INVOKANA$125
- ELIQUIS$125
- NO PRODUCT DISCUSSED$112
How this compares
$1,960 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,570 hospitalist providers in Florida.
Other hospitalist in Ft Lauderdale
- Murray EpsteinMiami$370K
- Oliver AbelaFort Myers$77K
- Joshua LenchusFort Lauderdale$73K
- Tuncay TaskesenThe Villages$22K
- Diego MunozApopka$17K
- Francisco Perez LoretoMiami$17K
- Tereese AllenTampa$11K
- Timothy LongBay Pines$10K
- Iahn GonsenhauserFort Myers$8K
- Michael ShehataRiverview$7K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.