Mary Blumberg
Internal Medicine · Norfolk, VANPI 1174742043
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 6 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Merck accounts for 63.7% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $141.
Across 6 payments — averaging $26.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$103
- UCB, Inc.$47
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$12
Across 685 payments — averaging $9562.57 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.
- GSK$1.9M
- Pfizer$1.6M
- Eli Lilly$656K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$621K
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$338K
- Merck$296K
- plus $1.1M from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$162100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 3 | $103 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$162 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.
Other internal medicine in Norfolk
- Kunal KapoorNorfolk$34K
- Prashant BarakotiNorfolk$17K
- Kristina KratovilNorfolk$15K
- Charles LovellNorfolk$14K
- Kumar AbhishekMechanicsville$1M
- Amit MahajanFalls Church$1M
- Kevin DonohueFalls Church$655K
- Denise BrunerArlington$227K
- Anjali KaloreMidlothian$215K
- Scott GerrishVienna$207K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.