Tarlok Purewal
Internal Medicine · Marion, OHNPI 1881678381
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 166 payments — averaging $15.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$422
- AstraZeneca$325
- Lilly USA, LLC$283
- Merck$215
- Amgen$196
- Boehringer Ingelheim$182
- plus $967 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,56999%
- Education$211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 38 | $422 |
| AstraZeneca | 19 | $325 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 19 | $283 |
| Merck | 17 | $215 |
| Amgen | 8 | $196 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 8 | $182 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $171 |
| Novartis | 11 | $165 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $160 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $102 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $71 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $70 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $44 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- XARELTO$110
How this compares
$2,590 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mirtazapine | 12 | $160 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Marion
- Sanjay VoraMarion$1.2M
- Parminder SinghMarion$690K
- Craig ThompsonMarion$393K
- Vivek AwastyMarion$383K
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.