Robert Blease, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Coeur D Alene, IDNPI 1760605455
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,219 of the $6,387 with a category attached, or 66.1%. Stryker accounts for 67.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,392 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $55 in 2025.
Across 22 payments — averaging $290.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$4K
- Summit Surgical Corp.$1K
- Smith+Nephew$304
- Johnson & Johnson$283
- Zimmer Biomet$137
- Steelhead Surgical Inc$60
- plus $122 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,21966%
- Food & beverage$83113%
- Education$1,33721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 2 | $4,281 |
| Summit Surgical Corp. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $304 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $283 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $137 |
| Steelhead Surgical Inc | 1 | $60 |
| Sawtooth Surgical Solutions Inc | 3 | $59 |
| Onkos Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$6,387 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 139 orthopaedic surgery providers in Idaho.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 20 | $81 |
| Amoxicillin | 20 | $44 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Coeur D Alene
- Lucas AndersonCoeur D Alene$243K
- Richard StowellCoeur D Alene$22K
- Jeffrey LymanCoeur D Alene$17K
- Stefan YakelCoeur D Alene$15K
- Darren PlummerCoeur D Alene$15K
- David ParkerCoeur D Alene$12K
- Carl HumphreyEagle$9.4M
- Richard MooreBoise$7.4M
- Roman SchwartsmanBoise$358K
- Jeffry MenznerBoise$194K
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.