Has Ernie Balcueva received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,066 in general payments to Ernie Balcueva across 153 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Ernie Balcueva did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Ernie Balcueva come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Ernie Balcueva

Hematology & Oncology · Saginaw, MINPI 1154365252

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (42.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 44 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 56.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,498 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $128 in 2022.

$8,066in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $52.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$5K
Genentech USA, Inc.$539
AstraZeneca$356
Pfizer$229
Eisai Inc.$202
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$177
plus $2K from 38 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,30041%
Speaking & faculty fees$400%
Travel & lodging$97212%
Food & beverage$3,38542%
Education$3705%

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
Amgen	12	$4,516
Genentech USA, Inc.	20	$539
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	11	$356
Pfizer	13	$229
Eisai Inc.	7	$202
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	8	$177
GSK	5	$154
Lilly USA, LLC	6	$146
Johnson & Johnson	2	$118
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	2	$108
Incyte Corporation	4	$108
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	2	$107
Novartis	6	$104
Comsort, Inc	1	$100
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	3	$91
Sanofi	3	$81
Seagen Inc.	2	$76
Merck	5	$70
Tesaro, Inc.	3	$59
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$56
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$55
Verastem, Inc.	1	$55
Array Biopharma Inc	3	$44
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$42
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	3	$41
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	3	$41
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$40
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$39
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$33
Gilead	2	$32
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$26
Emmaus Medical, Inc.	1	$25
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$21
Medtronic	1	$20
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	1	$20
Mylan Institutional Inc.	1	$19
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$18
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$13
Clovis Oncology, Inc.	1	$13
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$13
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
Shionogi Inc	1	$12

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.

How this compares

$8,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 282 hematology & oncology providers in Michigan.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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