Has Jo Blasengame received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,092 in general payments to Jo Blasengame across 302 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 Jo Blasengame 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 Jo Blasengame 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.

Jo Blasengame

Nurse Practitioner · Pine Bluff, ARNPI 1356005250

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,381 of the $6,092 with a category attached, or 88.3%. It is spread thinly across 50 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 9.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in AR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$6,092in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 302 payments — averaging $20.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$561
Incyte Corporation$342
Lilly USA, LLC$307
AstraZeneca$306
Johnson & Johnson$279
Sanofi$272
plus $4K from 44 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$5,38188%
Education$71112%

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
Novartis	33	$561
Incyte Corporation	18	$342
Lilly USA, LLC	12	$307
AstraZeneca	19	$306
Johnson & Johnson	14	$279
Sanofi	10	$272
Eisai Inc.	13	$267
Seagen Inc.	9	$261
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	11	$229
AbbVie	11	$201
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	9	$197
GSK	11	$187
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$175
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	10	$170
Pfizer	9	$156
Exelixis Inc.	9	$151
Gilead	4	$147
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$143
Beigene USA, Inc.	7	$129
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	2	$113
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	7	$111
Amgen	6	$105
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$101
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$96
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	5	$93
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	5	$91
Bayer	5	$82
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	4	$77
Genentech USA, Inc.	4	$67
Bristol Myers Squibb	3	$61
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$55
Emmaus Medical, Inc.	2	$54
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$48
G1 Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$45
Sobi, Inc	2	$41
Geron Corporation	2	$41
Array Biopharma Inc	2	$41
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	2	$40
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	2	$30
Tempus AI, Inc	1	$28
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	2	$28
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$23
Verity Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Caris MPI, Inc.	1	$20
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$20
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$19
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	1	$17
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$16
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$16
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$15

How this compares

$6,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 697 nurse practitioner providers in Arkansas.

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Tiffany McConathyHot Springs$54K
Brenna FitzgeraldNorth Little Rock$46K
Iris KennedyLittle Rock$22K
Virginia LaliberteHot Springs$21K
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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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