Maria Cole, DO
Internal Medicine · Joliet, ILNPI 1215922679
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 131 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 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $929, 4.4 times the $213 reported in 2019.
Across 131 payments — averaging $19.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$557
- Lilly USA, LLC$333
- Boehringer Ingelheim$314
- Novo Nordisk$280
- Pfizer$148
- Amgen$141
- plus $797 from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,570100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 25 | $557 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $333 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 16 | $314 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $280 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $148 |
| Amgen | 9 | $141 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $105 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $57 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $39 |
| Abbott | 2 | $36 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Bayer | 2 | $29 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $24 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $20 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $16 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $15 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,570 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 25 | $42,360 |
| EliquisApixaban | 26 | $36,622 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 30 | $35,150 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 20 | $35,044 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 20 | $30,795 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 29 | $29,486 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 300 | $4,197 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 42 | $2,265 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 194 | $1,736 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 184 | $1,593 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 91 | $1,492 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 119 | $1,361 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 104 | $1,253 |
| Raloxifene Hcl | 17 | $1,232 |
| Omeprazole | 89 | $1,155 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro | $333 | $71,84754 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $148 | $36,62226 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $34 | $35,15030 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $280 | $35,04420 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $557 | $30,79520 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $39 | $2,26542 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Other internal medicine in Joliet
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- Robert KushnerChicago$516K
- William CruikshankOak Lawn$431K
- Romeo UrsuaChicago$420K
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- Peter O DonnellChicago$318K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.