John Vargo
Geriatric Medicine · Austintown, OHNPI 1316930100
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.8% of the total across 151 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 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $1,366 and has fallen 67.9% since, to $438 in 2021.
Across 151 payments — averaging $16.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$473
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$218
- Cook Medical LLC$209
- Boehringer Ingelheim$204
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$181
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$158
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,486100%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 39 | $473 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $218 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $209 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $204 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 11 | $181 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 8 | $158 |
| Merck | 8 | $115 |
| GSK | 6 | $92 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $85 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $82 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $78 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Indivior Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $68 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $68 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $54 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $23 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Amgen | 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
$2,492 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 146 geriatric medicine providers in Ohio.
Other geriatric medicine in Austintown
- Meenakshi PatelCenterville$644K
- Daniel CannoneWadsworth$423K
- Babak TousiCleveland$215K
- Brinder VijWest Chester$92K
- Sean CannoneCopley$74K
- Tai-Chi KwokWooster$26K
- James FidelholtzCincinnati$15K
- Rodney IsonCanal Fulton$10K
- Ronan FactoraCleveland$9K
- Gurjeet KahlonCenterville$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.