Kenneth Nekl
Internal Medicine · N Royalton, OHNPI 1336239029
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 62 payments — averaging $22.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$326
- Amgen$167
- AstraZeneca$167
- Insulet Corporation$110
- Pfizer$92
- Abbott$70
- plus $459 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,390100%
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 | 11 | $326 |
| Amgen | 4 | $167 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $167 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $110 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $92 |
| Abbott | 4 | $70 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $62 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $52 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $51 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $48 |
| Valeritas, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $13 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,390 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 11 | $1,411 |
| Ultra-Fine Mini Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic | 11 | $1,237 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 62 | $628 |
| Valsartan | 11 | $591 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 40 | $397 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 23 | $334 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 18 | $275 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 18 | $196 |
| Losartan Potassium | 27 | $170 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 17 | $146 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 41 | $142 |
| Glimepiride | 14 | $88 |
| Simvastatin | 13 | $84 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in N Royalton
- Antoinette PragalosCincinnati$27.8M
- 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
- Leela VrishabhendraCincinnati$3.4M
- Narinder SainiSpringfield$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.