John Blanchard
Internal Medicine · Madison, WINPI 1982671517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Boston Scientific.
Across 1 payment — averaging $36.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$36
Across 200 payments — averaging $86,073 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.
- PTC Therapeutics, Inc.$3.7M
- Eli Lilly$2.2M
- Amgen$2.1M
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$2M
- Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1.4M
- Kyowa Kirin Pharmaceutical Development, Inc$1.3M
- plus $4.5M from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$36100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $36 |
How this compares
$36 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,411 internal medicine providers in Wisconsin.
Other internal medicine in Madison
- Andrew NickelMadison$32K
- James DavisMadison$23K
- Amit ChitnisMadison$11K
- Kenneth CogginsMadison$10K
- Karyn BaumMadison$4K
- Jeremiah DeptaMilwaukee$723K
- James KuplicSheboygan$201K
- Erik StilpMilwaukee$116K
- Christopher WeberGermantown$113K
- Alejandro EismaWinnebago$84K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.