Has Taher Sobhy received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,253 in general payments to Taher Sobhy across 450 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Taher Sobhy did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Taher Sobhy come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Taher Sobhy

Family Medicine · Gurnee, ILNPI 1679558068

Payments from drug & device makers

$19,253in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 450 payments — averaging $42.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$4K
Amgen$2K
Novo Nordisk$2K
Lilly USA, LLC$1K
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
plus $8K from 32 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,2006%
Food & beverage$16,20284%
Education$300%
Gifts$1,8219%

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)	89	$3,713
Amgen	53	$2,218
Novo Nordisk	34	$1,636
Lilly USA, LLC	74	$1,465
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$1,402
Johnson & Johnson	16	$1,223
Boehringer Ingelheim	34	$1,157
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	18	$1,032
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	16	$826
AstraZeneca	14	$632
Pfizer	12	$464
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	9	$339
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	12	$315
Corcept Therapeutics	6	$307
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$248
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	5	$230
Boston Scientific	2	$221
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	1	$171
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	6	$160
MDD US Operations, LLC	1	$160
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$145
Merck	3	$135
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$125
GSK	1	$124
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$122
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$109
Exact Sciences	4	$96
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	5	$91
Abbott	2	$80
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$76
Novartis	3	$63
Lucid Diagnostics Inc.	3	$47
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$35
Cranial Technologies, Inc	2	$28
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$17
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Lundbeck LLC	1	$14
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$12

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

$19,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,116 family medicine providers in Illinois.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Nebivolol Hcl	12	$1,442
Rosuvastatin Calcium	41	$449
Tamsulosin Hcl	16	$436
Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl	13	$246
Metoprolol Succinate	11	$214
Levothyroxine Sodium	15	$212
Simvastatin	11	$184
Atorvastatin Calcium	13	$146
Lisinopril	13	$123
Amlodipine Besylate	24	$105
Ramipril	12	$80

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other family medicine in Gurnee

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Daniel BruneCreve Coeur$15M
Ali BajwaSpringfield$5.8M
John ElsenEvergreen Park$5M
Manohar JethaniBerwyn$4.9M
Tiffany NguyenSkokie$3.9M
Bradley TorphyChicago$3M
Diana WidicusRochester$2.6M
Nicholas WeberEureka$2.5M
Stanley KochMorton$2.3M

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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.

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