RxDoctor Payments Data

James Blanchfield, MD

Internal Medicine · Syracuse, NYNPI 1538163944

Payments from drug & device makers

$686in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $19.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$185
  • Novo Nordisk$86
  • AbbVie$65
  • Merck$60
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$58
  • Pfizer$39
  • plus $193 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$686100%

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

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24

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.

How this compares

$686 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$166,980
Medicare patients
352
Services billed
2,158

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
OzempicSemaglutide154$193,580
JardianceEmpagliflozin112$143,432
EliquisApixaban74$84,930
XareltoRivaroxaban45$44,796
XifaxanRifaximin12$37,170
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter46$35,919
TradjentaLinagliptin24$35,905
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol56$30,134
Atorvastatin Calcium577$5,939
Levothyroxine Sodium380$5,489
Metoprolol Succinate273$5,285
Fluvastatin ErFluvastatin Sodium13$5,267
Losartan Potassium419$4,708
DilantinPhenytoin Sodium Extended19$4,410
Omeprazole252$4,306

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Novo NordiskOzempic$86$193,580154 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta$58$179,337136 claims
PfizerEliquis, Dilantin$39$89,34093 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta$185$69,202114 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$65$3,74944 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 9,771 internal medicine providers in New York.

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