Robert Blackwell, MD
Urology · Springfield, ILNPI 1346569480
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $39.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Southern Implants North America Inc$2K
- Cook Medical LLC$616
- Olympus America Inc.$402
- Keystone Dental Inc.$369
- Johnson & Johnson$291
- Boston Scientific$285
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,42892%
- Entertainment$3698%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Implants North America Inc | 21 | $1,662 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 7 | $616 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 9 | $402 |
| Keystone Dental Inc. | 1 | $369 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 16 | $291 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $285 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $249 |
| Merck | 11 | $201 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $91 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $81 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Novartis | 3 | $62 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $50 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $43 |
| Amgen | 2 | $28 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Isoray, Inc | 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.
- iTIND System$278
- NGage$247
- TRI-MAX$122
- Cook Medical Stents$120
- GENERAL KIDNEY STONE DISEASE$105
- LITHO 150$101
How this compares
$4,797 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 550 urology providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GemtesaVibegron | 20 | $24,295 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 366 | $5,911 |
| Finasteride | 147 | $1,304 |
| Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate | 12 | $885 |
| Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride | 41 | $769 |
| Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst | 35 | $471 |
| Solifenacin Succinate | 15 | $374 |
| Silodosin | 12 | $333 |
| Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl | 18 | $311 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 139 | $253 |
| Cephalexin | 58 | $210 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 43 | $195 |
| Trospium Chloride | 13 | $174 |
| Levofloxacin | 53 | $167 |
| Simvastatin | 12 | $71 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other urology in Springfield
- David LieberSpringfield$1.5M
- Kevin McVarySpringfield$513K
- Maria MonnSpringfield$86K
- Robert NadlerSpringfield$70K
- Bradley SchwartzSpringfield$45K
- Mark BrandtPark Ridge$3M
- Ashley RossChicago$2.3M
- Aaron BergerChicago Ridge$2.1M
- Joshua MeeksChicago$2M
- Courtney HollowellChicago$1.9M
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.