Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

ALAN BLANK

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1841581220
CMS profile
1395307
Location
CHICAGO, IL

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$70,895.27

  • Reported across 65 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$11,883.81

16 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Consulting Fee $8,625.00 3
Honoraria $2,400.00 1
Food and Beverage $772.44 10
Travel and Lodging $86.37 2

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $8,870.85 7
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. $2,616.60 4
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $264.73 4
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $131.63 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $892.44 5
PY2019 $160.41 3
PY2020 $8,312.50 5
PY2021 $9,652.32 6
PY2022 $19,110.57 13
PY2023 $20,883.22 17
PY2024 $11,883.81 16

Payment records · PY2024 (16)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. $2,400.00 07/27/2024 Honoraria Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145872293 CMS
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. $90.80 07/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145872295 CMS
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. $90.80 07/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145872297 CMS
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc. $35.00 07/27/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145872299 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $25.22 09/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077837041 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $53.46 10/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077837961 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $108.13 10/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077837212 CMS
DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $77.92 11/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1077836666 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $51.37 01/29/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442097 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $68.90 02/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442091 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $24.86 02/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442093 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $8,000.00 04/25/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442099 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $250.00 08/29/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442101 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $100.72 09/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442095 CMS
Onkos Surgical, Inc. $375.00 11/26/2024 Consulting Fee Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144442103 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $131.63 02/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149598630 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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