Lawrence Blase
Internal Medicine · Farmington Hills, MINPI 1265419204
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $20.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$544
- Lilly USA, LLC$151
- Novo Nordisk$101
- AbbVie$98
- GSK$95
- Merck$90
- plus $575 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,654100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 16 | $544 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $151 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $101 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $98 |
| GSK | 7 | $95 |
| Merck | 5 | $90 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $81 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 2 | $76 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $75 |
| Abbott | 3 | $60 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $38 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $27 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $19 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $13 |
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.
- FARXIGA$279
How this compares
$1,654 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,567 internal medicine providers in Michigan.
Other internal medicine in Farmington Hills
- Barry FeldmanFarmington Hills$946K
- Ali AlsaadiFarmington Hills$483K
- Ulka VaishampayanAnn Arbor$33.7M
- Jeffrey PottsBay City$14.7M
- Neil FraserTroy$14.3M
- Abdulhassan SaadDearborn$11.5M
- Leslie PelkeyGrand Rapids$8.5M
- Jay SandbergTroy$8.3M
- Ding WangDetroit$6.8M
- Dipenkumar ModiDetroit$4.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.