Matthew Blazek
Family Medicine · Westlake, OHNPI 1053317248
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 98 payments — averaging $15.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$244
- Novo Nordisk$220
- Pfizer$161
- GSK$156
- AstraZeneca$128
- Lilly USA, LLC$127
- plus $524 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,561100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 9 | $244 |
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $220 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $161 |
| GSK | 13 | $156 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $128 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $127 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $69 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $50 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $47 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $37 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $29 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $13 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $13 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$1,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
Other family medicine in Westlake
- Michael ButcherCincinnati$18.3M
- William RandallKettering$7.5M
- Paul NugentCincinnati$4.9M
- Steve ChoiDayton$4.8M
- Martin SchearDayton$2.2M
- Rajesh DavitCincinnati$2M
- Kwabena OtengSpringdale$2M
- Blaise GattoMoraine$1.8M
- Cathy GreiweColumbus$1.4M
- Brian BeesleyColumbus$1.4M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.