Who Paid My Doc
David Balzer
Pediatric Cardiology Saint Louis, MO Medical Doctor
NPI 1134147572 CMS profile 323270
1 Childrens Pl, Div Ped Cardiology, Saint Louis, MO 63110
General payments
$180,962
Research payments
$3,750
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$363,096
Through program year 2025, David Balzer of Saint Louis, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $180,962 across 303 general payments and $3,750 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $363,096 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 98th percentile of Pediatric Cardiology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
13 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $24,818 | 38 | |
| 2025 | Research | $563 | 1 | |
| 2024 | General | $20,968 | 37 | |
| 2024 | Research | $563 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $18,633 | 36 | |
| 2023 | Research | $375 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $15,933 | 44 | |
| 2021 | General | $17,695 | 41 | |
| 2021 | Research | $375 | 1 | |
| 2020 | General | $21,886 | 19 | |
| 2020 | Research | $1,500 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $61,029 | 88 | |
| 2019 | Research | $375 | 1 |
Beside peers
- David Balzer
- Pediatric Cardiology median
- Middle half of Pediatric Cardiology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to David Balzer were reported at $24,818. Among 1,168 Pediatric Cardiology profiles paid that year, the median was $146 and the middle half received between $47 and $670.
Show as a table
| Year | David Balzer | Pediatric Cardiology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $61,029 | $124 | $35–$516 | $163 |
| 2020 | $21,886 | $70 | $23–$326 | $114 |
| 2021 | $17,695 | $112 | $27–$445 | $132 |
| 2022 | $15,933 | $129 | $36–$680 | $149 |
| 2023 | $18,633 | $149 | $38–$826 | $160 |
| 2024 | $20,968 | $131 | $37–$652 | $164 |
| 2025 | $24,818 | $146 | $47–$670 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 1 drugPart D claims
13
Drug cost
$80
Branded share of claims
0%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warfarin Sodium | Generic | 13 | $80 |
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 3,361 Part D prescribers listed as Pediatric Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
312 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.