Britton Blough, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Durham, NCNPI 1407111420
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 92 payments — averaging $59.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$331
- Merck$154
- Livanova USA, Inc.$147
- CSL Behring$132
- plus $950 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,43026%
- Food & beverage$4,01074%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 19 | $1,916 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,810 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 4 | $331 |
| Merck | 9 | $154 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| CSL Behring | 6 | $132 |
| Beyond Air, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $102 |
| Potrero Medical, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $67 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $62 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Vertex | 1 | $27 |
| Shionogi Inc | 2 | $26 |
| My01 Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $22 |
| Saranas, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- 2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$1,615
- MC3 NAUTILUS(TM) ECMO OXYGENATOR$1,255
- GIAPREZA$230
- LifeSPARC$147
- Bio-Medicus$133
- LungFit PH$102
How this compares
$5,440 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 393 pulmonary disease providers in North Carolina.
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.
Other pulmonary disease in Durham
- Laurie SnyderDurham$3.8M
- Scott PalmerDurham$3.8M
- Lake MorrisonDurham$1.6M
- Loretta QueDurham$1.3M
- Robert TigheDurham$824K
- Eric MeltzerDurham$262K
- Craig RackleyDurham$123K
- Scott ShoferDurham$91K
- Selwyn SpangenthalCharlotte$7M
- Thomas SternHuntersville$5.2M
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.