Blake Stringham, DO
Anesthesiology · Spokane Valley, WANPI 1518426329
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,783 of the $4,587 with a category attached, or 82.5%. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among anesthesiology clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 117 payments — averaging $39.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Globus Medical$889
- Nevro Corp.$700
- Boston Scientific$543
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$228
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$223
- plus $916 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$80418%
- Food & beverage$3,78382%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 24 | $1,088 |
| Globus Medical | 15 | $889 |
| Nevro Corp. | 15 | $700 |
| Boston Scientific | 15 | $543 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 18 | $228 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $223 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $192 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $162 |
| Merck | 1 | $107 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $89 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $84 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $67 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Senza$778
- Intracept$581
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$400
- mild Device Kit$223
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$144
- GENERATOR$142
- BRIDION$107
How this compares
$4,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,206 anesthesiology providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 59 | $984 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 20 | $761 |
| Methocarbamol | 24 | $313 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 15 | $179 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $170 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $107 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other anesthesiology in Spokane Valley
- Scott SpendloveSpokane Valley$32K
- David AuyongSeattle$284K
- Lucy HostetterSeattle$96K
- Georg MackensenSeattle$81K
- Ata-Ul RahmanSeattle$59K
- Cong YuSeattle$56K
- Deborah MerrillSeattle$37K
- David StoutSeattle$31K
- Cassie GabrielVancouver$29K
- Wenyu PanSeattle$25K
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.