Louise Taber
Internal Medicine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1932205127
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $18,600 of the $23,047 with a category attached, or 80.7%. Vertex accounts for 90.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $11,804, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2022. Among internal medicine clinicians in AZ with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 31 payments — averaging $743.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vertex$21K
- Tris Pharma Inc$2K
- AbbVie$290
- Boston Scientific$16
Across 107 payments — averaging $79,510 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Vertex$6.5M
- Eli Lilly$1.5M
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$180K
- Novartis$105K
- Pfizer$70K
- AbbVie$32K
- plus $122K from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$18,60081%
- Travel & lodging$3,75816%
- Food & beverage$6883%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vertex | 27 | $20,741 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $2,000 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $290 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
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
$23,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Phoenix
- Frank LovecchioPhoenix$911K
- Nasser HajaigPhoenix$687K
- Kelly KrohnPhoenix$262K
- Paul StanderPhoenix$222K
- Howard GrossmanPhoenix$131K
- Nafis Shamsid-DeenPhoenix$115K
- Shishir MurarkaPhoenix$79K
- Mark WongPhoenix$71K
- Geoffrey OrmePhoenix$27K
- Roberto RuizPhoenix$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.