Joe Blumenau
Family Medicine · Dallas, TXNPI 1801993878
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,034 of the $1,389 with a category attached, or 74.4%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck.
Across 12 payments — averaging $115.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
Across 88 payments — averaging $14,106 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$1.2M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$4K
- Merck$3K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,03474%
- Food & beverage$35626%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 12 | $1,389 |
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.
- V114$1,068
How this compares
$1,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 8,760 family medicine providers in Texas.
Other family medicine in Dallas
- Dan NguyenDallas$60K
- Ashley OlsinDallas$48K
- Scott ConardDallas$41K
- Carlos CamposNew Braunfels$1.5M
- Aaron KingSan Antonio$1.1M
- Bradley WassonArlington$734K
- Cynthia BrinsonAustin$402K
- Michael MendezLubbock$368K
- Sang Tae KimAmarillo$368K
- Sumit PerakathuHarlingen$342K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.