Blake Barnes
Internal Medicine · Columbia, MONPI 1477849602
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 207 payments — averaging $12.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$204
- Merck$191
- Corium, LLC$182
- GSK$182
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$101
- plus $565 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,540100%
- Education$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 126 | $1,125 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $204 |
| Merck | 11 | $191 |
| Corium, LLC | 10 | $182 |
| GSK | 12 | $182 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $84 |
| Sobi, Inc | 3 | $66 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $65 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $51 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Krystal Biotech Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $18 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$2,552 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Other internal medicine in Columbia
- Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
- Puja NistalaColumbia$235K
- Syed NaqviColumbia$139K
- Donald DelwoodColumbia$84K
- Timothy SmithSaint Peters$21.4M
- Craig DietzKansas City$4M
- Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
- Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
- Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$575K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.