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Robert Ecker

Internal Medicine · Columbus, OHNPI 1194701284

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,397in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 112 payments — averaging $12.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$195
  • AstraZeneca$154
  • GSK$143
  • Merck$123
  • Johnson & Johnson$109
  • Amgen$100
  • plus $573 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,38599%
  • Education$111%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novo Nordisk18$195
AstraZeneca12$154
GSK14$143
Merck14$123
Johnson & Johnson12$109
Amgen5$100
Amarin Pharma, Inc.4$71
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.5$66
Astellas Pharma US Inc4$62
Lilly USA, LLC4$51
Boehringer Ingelheim3$45
Imperative Care, Inc1$42
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.2$35
Genentech USA, Inc.2$30
Novartis2$28
Antares Pharma, Inc.2$24
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC2$23
AbbVie1$21
Alkermes, Inc.1$21
Mission Pharmacal Company1$17
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.1$13
Pfizer1$12
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.1$12

How this compares

$1,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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