Who Paid My Doc
Erik Balster
Dentist, Pediatric Dentistry Cedar Rapids, IA Doctor of Dentistry
NPI 1568476604 CMS profile 891537
4207 Glass Rd. Ne Suite 2, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
General payments
$1,968
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2023, Erik Balster of Cedar Rapids, IA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,968 across 6 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.
General payments for this record sit in the 95th percentile of Dentist, Pediatric Dentistry profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
3 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | General | $18 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $140 | 2 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,810 | 3 |
Beside peers
- Erik Balster
- Dentist, Pediatric Dentistry median
- Middle half of Dentist, Pediatric Dentistry
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Erik Balster were reported at $0. Among 2,761 Dentist, Pediatric Dentistry profiles paid that year, the median was $43 and the middle half received between $19 and $117.
Show as a table
| Year | Erik Balster | Dentist, Pediatric Dentistry median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | $40 | $17–$119 | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | $43 | $17–$89 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,810 | $38 | $17–$115 | $132 |
| 2022 | $140 | $43 | $17–$130 | $149 |
| 2023 | $18 | $44 | $19–$137 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $43 | $19–$117 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $43 | $19–$117 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
6 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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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.