Has Joseph Jacko received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,831 in general payments to Joseph Jacko across 707 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joseph Jacko did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Joseph Jacko come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Joseph Jacko

Internal Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1730185844

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,831in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 707 payments — averaging $12.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novo Nordisk$2K
AbbVie$836
Pfizer$814
AstraZeneca$691
GSK$671
Amarin Pharma, Inc.$579
plus $4K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$8,78299%
Education$501%

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
Novo Nordisk	177	$1,663
AbbVie(2 entities)	66	$836
Pfizer	61	$814
AstraZeneca	43	$691
GSK	56	$671
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	41	$579
Lilly USA, LLC	40	$507
Johnson & Johnson	30	$383
Merck	38	$349
Boehringer Ingelheim	16	$243
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	14	$202
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	12	$200
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	12	$167
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	9	$164
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	12	$158
Amgen	9	$150
Astellas Pharma US Inc	8	$125
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	8	$103
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	7	$103
Eisai Inc.	5	$81
Antares Pharma, Inc.	6	$75
Novartis	5	$74
Genentech USA, Inc.	5	$73
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	2	$41
Clarus Therapeutics Inc.	3	$39
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	3	$35
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$35
Abbott	1	$24
Bayer	1	$22
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$22
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
Boston Scientific	1	$21
Metuchen Pharmaceuticals	1	$19
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
Mission Pharmacal Company	1	$17
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$16
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$16
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$15
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14
Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$13
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$12
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$5

How this compares

$8,831 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Testosterone Cypionate	17	$921
Ipratropium Bromide	11	$488
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	15	$326
Methylprednisolone	16	$114
Prednisone	21	$101
Tramadol Hcl	13	$65
Azithromycin	18	$52
Atorvastatin Calcium	20	$35
Trazodone Hcl	17	$23
Levothyroxine Sodium	14	$14
Lisinopril	16	$7

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other internal medicine in Columbus

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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
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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