Who Paid My Doc
Karen Blum
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical Chicago, IL Clinical Nurse Specialist
NPI 1720419294 CMS profile 10869882
2900 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60657
General payments
$309
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Karen Blum of Chicago, IL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $309 across 9 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 57th percentile of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $249 | 6 | |
| 2024 | General | $39 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $22 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Karen Blum
- Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical median
- Middle half of Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Karen Blum were reported at $249. Among 59 Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical profiles paid that year, the median was $165 and the middle half received between $54 and $254.
Show as a table
| Year | Karen Blum | Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical-Surgical median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $0 | — | — | $163 |
| 2020 | $0 | — | — | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $214 | $58–$714 | $132 |
| 2022 | $22 | $153 | $29–$560 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $119 | $27–$460 | $160 |
| 2024 | $39 | $124 | $52–$304 | $164 |
| 2025 | $249 | $165 | $54–$254 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 5 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$2,089
Medicare patients
22
Services billed
30
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 64% | |
| Diabetes | 59% | |
| Heart failure | 55% | |
| Depression | 55% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 50% | |
| Alzheimer's or dementia | 50% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
9 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.