James Blake
Internal Medicine · Philadelphia, PANPI 1720176381
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 127 payments — averaging $1291.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Olympus America Inc.$152K
- AbbVie$9K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$993
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$380
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$171
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$137
- plus $647 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,9005%
- Travel & lodging$2370%
- Food & beverage$2,5092%
- Other$152,34393%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus America Inc. | 18 | $152,343 |
| AbbVie | 21 | $9,317 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 37 | $993 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 15 | $380 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 10 | $171 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $133 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 9 | $128 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $67 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Gilead | 3 | $40 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $20 |
| Braintree Laboratories, 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.
- EVIS EXERA lll COLONOVIDEOSCOPE$130,103
- EVIS EXERA III GASTROINTESTINAL VIDEOSCOPE$31,443
- EVIS EXERA III COLONOVIDEOSCOPE$21,938
- LINZESS$9,105
- Orladeyo$127
- XIFAXAN$119
- VOQUEZNA$115
How this compares
$163,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 15 | $887 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Philadelphia
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Walter KraftPhiladelphia$3.7M
- Daniel RaderPhiladelphia$3.3M
- Archna BajajPhiladelphia$2.9M
- Gary YeomanPhiladelphia$2.4M
- Melina MarmarelisPhiladelphia$2.1M
- Adam WaxmanPhiladelphia$894K
- Donna GavaronePhiladelphia$728K
- Eyob FeyssaPhiladelphia$693K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.