Christopher Blanchet
Physician Assistant · Gaylord, MINPI 1124370325
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 261 payments — averaging $18.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- AbbVie$709
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$474
- Grifols USA, LLC$299
- Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$241
- Amgen$230
- plus $2K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,802100%
- Education$230%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 57 | $1,129 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 44 | $709 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 27 | $474 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 14 | $299 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $241 |
| Amgen | 13 | $230 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $215 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $198 |
| Exact Sciences | 7 | $143 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $137 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $124 |
| GSK | 7 | $116 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $98 |
| Bayer | 4 | $76 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $73 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $67 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Merck | 3 | $44 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 2 | $42 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Novartis | 2 | $34 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $21 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $19 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$4,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,453 physician assistant providers in Michigan.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 20 | $140 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Gaylord
- Sarang PatelRoyal Oak$660K
- Beth SweneyAda$617K
- Zainab JishiCanton$596K
- Taylor HennrickAdrian$430K
- Erin van DykeGrand Rapids$346K
- Ashley AldridgeAnn Arbor$298K
- Derek SusallaRochester Hills$242K
- Gabrielle DamoreRoyal Oak$200K
- Melissa MickelsonKalamazoo$168K
- Patrick CooneyNew Baltimore$91K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.