Harish Thaker
Hospitalist · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1912971086
Payments from drug & device makers
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
- Sandi ColemanMiami$2.6M
- Miguel Mujica BaellaMiami$1.8M
- Fernando PedrazaMiami$1.8M
- Jose PineroMiami$1.1M
- Jose NegrinHomestead$674K
- Fernando Piedra ChavezMiami$554K
- Felipe Gascon-RodonPembroke Pines$441K
- Santos Reyes AlonsoMiami$429K
- Murray EpsteinMiami$370K
- Oliver AbelaFort Myers$193K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.