Robert Thaler
Internal Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1558368779
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 78 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 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $513 and has fallen 57.4% since, to $219 in 2025.
Across 78 payments — averaging $22.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$285
- AstraZeneca$190
- AbbVie$145
- Amgen$121
- Merck$119
- GSK$112
- plus $744 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,717100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $285 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $190 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $145 |
| Amgen | 1 | $121 |
| Merck | 1 | $119 |
| GSK | 8 | $112 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $99 |
| Abbott | 4 | $81 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $74 |
| Bayer | 3 | $54 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $38 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $37 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Novartis | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 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
$1,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.