Leia Franchini
Neurology · Columbus, OHNPI 1619460516
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 169 payments — averaging $27.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$811
- AstraZeneca$410
- Sanofi$409
- Biogen$345
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$330
- EMD Serono, Inc.$254
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,696100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 40 | $811 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $410 |
| Sanofi | 18 | $409 |
| Biogen | 13 | $345 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $330 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 3 | $254 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $253 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 11 | $208 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 6 | $196 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $184 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $183 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 15 | $158 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 4 | $147 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $121 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $115 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $38 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amylyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 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
$4,696 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 702 neurology providers in Ohio.
Other neurology in Columbus
- Jerry MendellColumbus$11.5M
- Douglas ScharreColumbus$6.8M
- Aaron BosterColumbus$6.3M
- Jacqueline NicholasColumbus$4.3M
- Miriam FreimerColumbus$2.5M
- Pierre GiglioColumbus$2M
- Kenneth MankowskiColumbus$1.6M
- Tirisham GyangColumbus$1.5M
- Geoffrey EubankColumbus$1.4M
- Bakri ElsheikhColumbus$918K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.