Robert Blum
Pediatrics · Bingham Farms, MINPI 1386634897
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 111 payments — averaging $18.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tris Pharma Inc$414
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$246
- Corium, LLC$217
- Merck$193
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$170
- Pfizer$161
- plus $660 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,060100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tris Pharma Inc | 24 | $414 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $246 |
| Corium, LLC | 9 | $217 |
| Merck | 12 | $193 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 10 | $170 |
| Pfizer | 11 | $161 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 6 | $112 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 7 | $99 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Gilead | 2 | $47 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Novartis | 1 | $29 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| GSK | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $14 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, 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.
How this compares
$2,060 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,473 pediatrics providers in Michigan.
Other pediatrics in Bingham Farms
- Martin LevinsonBingham Farms$543K
- Roger SilversteinBingham Farms$4K
- Deepa Soundara RajanDetroit$1.4M
- Meera ChitlurDetroit$1.3M
- Madhvi RajpurkarDetroit$331K
- Yaddanapudi RavindranathDetroit$313K
- Aghiad ChamdinDetroit$265K
- Rickey WilsonCaledonia$263K
- Debbie GipsonAnn Arbor$243K
- Randall LejaGrand Rapids$211K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.