Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Department of Internal Medicine / General Internal Medicine
Martha Morehouse Pavilion, Suite 2335
2050 Kenny Road, Columbus, OH 43221
Neeraj.Tayal@osumc.edu
614-293-4953
Dr. Neeraj Tayal is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He is a practicing primary care physician, educator, and healthcare innovator whose work focuses on improving patient care through clinical analytics, population health management, quality improvement, and health information technology.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Tayal has held numerous leadership positions at Ohio State, including Division Chief of General Internal Medicine, Director of the General Internal Medicine Faculty Development Program, Director of Clinical Data Analytics, and physician leader for several large-scale primary care transformation initiatives. He has played a key role in the design and implementation of innovative care models that improve quality, access, patient experience, and operational performance.
Dr. Tayal's current work centers on developing data-driven solutions that support clinicians, improve population health outcomes, and advance value-based care. He leads a multidisciplinary clinical analytics program that leverages electronic health record data, registries, and visualization tools to support quality improvement, research, operational decision-making, and physician engagement. His interests include preventive care, chronic disease management, panel management, care gap closure, remote patient monitoring, artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, and primary care transformation.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Tayal served as physician leader for Ohio State's Epic electronic health record implementation and chaired the implementation committee for Ohio State MyChart, helping establish foundational digital health capabilities that continue to serve patients throughout the health system. He also led successful efforts to achieve National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition across multiple primary care practices and directed several Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) innovation initiatives, including Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) and the Million Hearts cardiovascular risk reduction program.
As an educator, Dr. Tayal has mentored medical students, residents, faculty physicians, pharmacists, and healthcare leaders. He founded and directed the General Internal Medicine Faculty Development Program and has been actively involved in curriculum development, quality improvement education, and faculty advancement for more than two decades.
His scholarly work focuses on healthcare innovation, population health, primary care redesign, digital health, quality improvement, and the use of clinical data to improve healthcare delivery.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Tayal enjoys gardening and urban agriculture. He maintains a large community vegetable garden and is interested in the connections between nutrition, food systems, sustainability, and population health.
Education and Training
Medical Resident: Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
MD: Tufts University School of Medicine
Awards and Recognition
- Mazzaferi-Ellison Scholar Award, The Ohio State University College of Medicine (2026)
- Robert Murden Career Achievement Award, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University
- Friend of the College of Pharmacy Award, The Ohio State University
- College of Medicine Teaching Award, The Ohio State University
- Gorilla Award for Outstanding Performance in Clinical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine Residency Program, The Ohio State University
Selected Publications
Kim D, Kagel J, Tayal N, Bose-Brill S, Lai AM. “The Effects of Doctor-Patient Portal Use on Health Care Utilization Rates and Cost Savings. Submitted to Journal of
Medical Economics
Neeraj H. Tayal. "Health Information Technology: Patient Safety and the Importance of Training and Education." SGIM Forum. Vol. 35, no. 5. (May 2012): 6,11. http://www.sgim.org/userfiles/file/May%202012%20Forum/May2012-07.pdf
Andrew Schamess, Neeraj Tayal. "Reinventing House Calls: A Simple Solution for Complex Patients?." SGIM Forum. Vol. 36, no. 2. (Feb 2013): 7,11. http://www.sgim.org/File%20Library/SGIM/Resource%20Library/Forum/2013/Feb2013-07.pdf.
Shelley h. Otsuka, Stuart Beatty, Pharm D, BCPS, Neeraj H. Tayal, MD. "Improving Herpes Zoster Vaccination Rates Using an EMR-Based Personal Health Record: A Randomized-Controlled Study." American Journal of Medicine. Vol. 126, no. 9. (Sep 2013): e1-6. http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(13)00260-X/abstract.
Tayal, N. "Care Coordination with Electronic Health Records." SGIM Forum. Vol. 36, no. 11. (Nov 2013): 2,10. http://www.sgim.org/File%20Library/SGIM/Resource%20Library/Forum/2013/Nov2013-01.pdf.
Barnes, K, Tayal N, Lehman A, Beatty S. "Pharmacist-Driven Renal Medication Dosing Intervention in a Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Home." Pharmacotherapy. Vol. 10, no. 1002. (Oct 2014): 1508. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.1508/pdf.
Ranpara, N, Tayal N. "No More Waiting Around - Lean Six Sigma Accelerates Response at Medical Call Centers." Industrial Engineer - Engineering and Management Solutions That Work. Vol. 47, (Jan 2015): 1. http://www.iienet2.org/industrialengineer/Details.aspx?id=38358.
Tayal S, Michelson, K, Tayal N. "Listening with Empathy (2016)." AMA Steps Foward (American Medical Association). Vol. 2, (Sep 2016): 1-4. https://www.stepsforward.org/.
Schamess A, Foraker R, Kretovics M, Barnes K, Beatty S, Brill S, Tayal N. "Reduced emergency room and hospital utilization in persons with multiple chronic conditions and disability receiving home-based primary care." Disability and Health Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2016.10.004.
Addressing urban mal- and undernourishment through sustainable home gardening – author: Neeraj Tayal MD. Advances in Soil Science by Taylor and Francis – Volume entitled “The Soil-Human Health Nexus”. Published 2021.
Cory Coffy PharmD, Stu Beatty PharmD, Kelli Barnes PharmD, Dan Jonas MD, Neeraj Tayal MD. Reimbursement for services provided by clinical pharmacists in primary care: Description of changes over time in an academic primary care network in Ohio following the recognition of pharmacists as providers. - Journal - AJHP as a Practice Report 2025
Robbins SL, Grandominico JM, Tayal NH, Kirk LA, Coffey CP. Analysis of Utilization of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors in Patients with Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease within a Primary Care Setting. Researchers' Journal of Internal Medicine. 2025; e00004. doi: 10.63495/8067749
Jennifer A. Sabatino, Natalie S. Lee, Kelli D. Barnes, Cory P. Coffey, Daniel E. Jonas, Neeraj H. Tayal. Implementation modifications and outcomes of a pharmacist-led primary care remote hypertension service. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association (2025),102971,ISSN 1544-3191, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2025.102971.
Leupold S, Grandominico JM, Tayal NH, Coffey CP. Integration of a complexity billing tool to evaluate pharmacist clinical effort and improve accuracy of work RVU calculations. [Journal of the American Pharmacists Association]. 2026;[66(4)], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2026.103108.
Riley C, Coffey C, Tayal N, Grandominico J, Lee N, Sabatino K. Growth and Financial Outcomes of a Remote Physiologic Monitoring Service for Hypertension in the Primary Care Setting. [J Gen Intern Med] 2026 April 17. doi: 10.1007/s11606-026-10384-9.