Richard Blum, MD
Internal Medicine · Wilkes Barre, PANPI 1437173580
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 331 payments — averaging $22.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- Amgen$1K
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$860
- Bayer$535
- Novartis$463
- GSK$296
- plus $3K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,33299%
- Education$681%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 45 | $1,196 |
| Amgen | 37 | $1,019 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 31 | $860 |
| Bayer | 19 | $535 |
| Novartis | 22 | $463 |
| GSK | 11 | $296 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 10 | $296 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 13 | $279 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $275 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $250 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $204 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $186 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $175 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $173 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 10 | $162 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $148 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $125 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $116 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 6 | $107 |
| Abbott | 7 | $101 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $90 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $49 |
| Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Merck | 2 | $30 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $15 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$7,400 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 72 | $88,805 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 61 | $51,287 |
| EliquisApixaban | 66 | $47,762 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 48 | $43,339 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 56 | $43,238 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 27 | $30,917 |
| KerendiaFinerenone | 20 | $14,033 |
| Praluent PenAlirocumab | 23 | $12,792 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 15 | $11,372 |
| Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 34 | $10,938 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 20 | $9,696 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 11 | $8,305 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 13 | $8,142 |
| Ezetimibe | 274 | $5,749 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 17 | $5,584 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus, Novolog | $1,196 | $101,52796 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $204 | $51,28761 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $296 | $48,57070 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $175 | $47,76266 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $30 | $30,91727 claims |
| BayerKerendia | $535 | $14,03320 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $275 | $13,72630 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet | $860 | $9,69620 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $186 | $5,506109 claims |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Edarbi | $125 | $4,68211 claims |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus | $107 | $1,75011 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 5,705 internal medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other internal medicine in Wilkes Barre
- Jonathan EpsteinPhiladelphia$13.1M
- Siddharth ShethPittsburgh$11M
- Nathan PatelTannersville$9.5M
- Pitamber DevgonPhiladelphia$7.5M
- Christopher StillDanville$7.1M
- Liza VillaruzPittsburgh$6.6M
- Paul HartleyUniontown$4.9M
- Victor KoladeSayre$4.7M
- Michael OliverBeaver$4.7M
- Raman PurighallaPittsburgh$3.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.