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WALKER M BLANDING

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)

NPI
1477112407
CMS profile
6944015
Location
CHARLESTON, SC

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General Payments · PY2024 · Entire year

$3,990.08

39 records · 0 disputed

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By nature of payment

PY2024 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Travel and Lodging $1,612.26 4
Food and Beverage $1,377.82 34
Education $1,000.00 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · entire year · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2,114.22 20
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $1,028.98 2
ATRICURE, INC. $463.17 13
Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $236.83 2
LSI SOLUTIONS INC $124.56 1
Abbott Laboratories $22.32 1

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WALKER M BLANDING

NPI 1477112407 · CMS profile ID 6944015

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians / Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)

CHARLESTON, SC

A name match is not confirmation of identity. CMS publishes records for different people under similar names; the NPI, specialty, and location shown on this page are the CMS-published fields that distinguish them.

A payment attributed to a provider may have been made to a third party — a hospital, practice, or research institution — rather than paid to the provider personally.

General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types

Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00

Page 1 of 1; records 1–39 of 39 matching records. This page contains 39 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export.

Filtered page: https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1477112407?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h

CMS source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff

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WALKER M BLANDING, NPI 1477112407, CMS profile ID 6944015. General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–39 of 39 matching records. This page contains 39 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. IndustryPayments. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1477112407?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff.
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IndustryPayments. (2026). WALKER M BLANDING, NPI 1477112407, CMS profile ID 6944015. General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types. Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00. Page 1 of 1; records 1–39 of 39 matching records. This page contains 39 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. [Filtered data set page]. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1477112407?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff.
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WALKER M BLANDING, NPI 1477112407, CMS profile ID 6944015, IndustryPayments, General Payments, PY2024; Recipient scope: Physicians and non-physician practitioners; Reporting company: All reporting companies; Nature of payment: All payment types (Data edition: cms-20260630-workflow-20261105-v2; CMS publication: 2026-06-30; records imported: 2026-11-05T09:06:52.159882+00:00). Page 1 of 1; records 1–39 of 39 matching records. This page contains 39 records (maximum 50), not the full filtered export. Source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff. https://industrypayments.org/provider/npi-1477112407?year=2024&recipient=provider#records-h.

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General Payments · PY2024 · Physicians and non-physician practitioners · CMS publication 2026-06-30

39 matching records · $3,990.08 reported total · 0 disputed

Nature of payment: All payment types

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Showing records 1–39 of 39.

Paying entityAmountDate Nature of paymentDispute statusPublication flagsPublished Record IDSource
ATRICURE, INC. $35.0012/20/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132903503 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $138.0612/19/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848922 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $791.4012/19/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848924 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $26.2112/13/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132898594 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $95.4611/25/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848920 CMS
LSI SOLUTIONS INC $124.5611/14/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1147466582 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $22.9511/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132899918 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $16.9710/31/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132877377 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $4.4610/30/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132877485 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $3.7610/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848906 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $13.4410/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848908 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $26.2410/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848910 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2.4610/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848912 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $1.8710/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848894 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2.8610/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848896 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $26.7010/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848898 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $14.8410/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848900 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2.5110/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848902 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $2.1710/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848904 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $12.7510/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848916 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $21.5110/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848918 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $9.5910/07/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848914 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $120.4609/27/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848884 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $1,000.0009/18/2024 Education No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1137232282 CMS
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $28.9809/18/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1137254123 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $20.3709/17/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132893443 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $102.7408/29/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848882 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $278.6408/27/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848890 CMS
Edwards Lifesciences Corporation $446.7608/13/2024 Travel and Lodging No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1138848892 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $27.8307/23/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132886135 CMS
Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $171.6107/10/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1101026092 CMS
Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $65.2207/10/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1101026094 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $11.6706/06/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132879327 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $22.3206/06/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1125083037 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $59.1306/04/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132903713 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $22.1304/18/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132867074 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $188.9804/11/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132897104 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $20.4004/02/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132895920 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $7.0701/03/2024 Food and Beverage No dispute reported Delay: No
Change: UNCHANGED
06/30/2026 1132876175 CMS

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $120.93 1
PY2021 $669.00 9
PY2022 $605.25 5
PY2023 $1,411.09 17
PY2024 $3,990.08 39
PY2025 $1,297.26 21

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files and profile matching
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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