Sarah Tarter, MD
Internal Medicine · Akron, OHNPI 1518195783
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 154 payments — averaging $17.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$536
- AstraZeneca$474
- Novo Nordisk$224
- Exact Sciences$216
- GSK$152
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$132
- plus $949 from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,683100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 29 | $536 |
| AstraZeneca | 26 | $474 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $224 |
| Exact Sciences | 10 | $216 |
| GSK | 10 | $152 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $132 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $106 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $82 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $81 |
| Merck | 7 | $80 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $76 |
| Abbott | 4 | $76 |
| Novartis | 5 | $75 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $73 |
| Gilead | 2 | $30 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $29 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $25 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$2,683 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 130 | $105,623 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 58 | $79,619 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 54 | $55,936 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 49 | $48,405 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 36 | $42,154 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 26 | $32,020 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 23 | $26,527 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 24 | $24,750 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 31 | $23,285 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 23 | $18,428 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 16 | $16,208 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 11 | $12,787 |
| Semglee (Yfgn) PenInsulin Glargine-Yfgn | 19 | $10,898 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 15 | $9,670 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 14 | $8,665 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $16 | $105,623130 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Spiriva Respimat, Tradjenta, Stiolto Respimat | $81 | $89,29098 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $73 | $79,61958 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $224 | $74,17362 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $25 | $55,93654 claims |
| MerckJanuvia, Dulera | $80 | $33,91946 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort | $474 | $32,17351 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $152 | $27,43741 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $82 | $23,28531 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $536 | $2,55235 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 80th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Other internal medicine in Akron
- Hassan MalikAkron$1.7M
- Jeffrey KleinAkron$833K
- Amy HiteAkron$305K
- Mark ArredondoAkron$215K
- Antoinette PragalosCincinnati$27.8M
- Steven FolkerthBeavercreek$9.1M
- Charles EgerCincinnati$8.7M
- Vadim KoshkinCleveland$6.1M
- Nizar DaboulMaumee$4.7M
- Douglas LoganCincinnati$4.7M
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.