Michael Scharf, MD
Internal Medicine · Liberty Township, OHNPI 1609868744
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 157 payments — averaging $28.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- AbbVie$617
- Johnson & Johnson$506
- GSK$392
- Amgen$336
- Novo Nordisk$197
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,488100%
- Education$140%
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 | 18 | $1,257 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $617 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $506 |
| GSK | 6 | $392 |
| Amgen | 10 | $336 |
| Novo Nordisk | 20 | $197 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $116 |
| Pfizer | 22 | $114 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 12 | $113 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $99 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $83 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $55 |
| Merck | 4 | $50 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $41 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$4,502 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
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 | 48 | $91,035 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 44 | $58,500 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 48 | $51,376 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 23 | $32,155 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 20 | $27,599 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 16 | $25,794 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 13 | $14,871 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 18 | $11,555 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 14 | $8,339 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 448 | $3,051 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 19 | $2,576 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 25 | $2,377 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 191 | $1,685 |
| Ezetimibe | 52 | $1,564 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 105 | $1,350 |
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 | $113 | $91,03548 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $99 | $73,37157 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $197 | $51,37648 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $1,257 | $32,15523 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $50 | $27,59920 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $506 | $25,79416 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta | $392 | $11,55518 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $617 | $42424 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 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Other internal medicine in Liberty Township
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.