Physician profile

Charles S Bluhm

Gastroenterology (Internal Medicine) · Birmingham, AL

NPI 1306822705

$7,480.72

in general payments reported to CMS, 2019-2025

27 companies · none reported in 2025

Payments by year

General payments by program year, as reported to CMS.

What the payments were for

Nature of payment as categorized by the reporting companies: meals, consulting, travel, and so on.

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Payment typeAmount (2023-2025)
Food and Beverage$12.72

Payment-type detail covers 2023-2025; earlier years are included in totals but not broken out here.

Who reported paying

General payments only, as reported to CMS. Product names cover 2023-2025.

CompanyGeneral paymentsYearsTop products
Abbvie INC. $2,012.98 2019-2022
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,454.88 2019-2022
Pfizer INC. $1,154.41 2019-2022
Janssen Biotech, INC. $685.56 2019-2022
Gilead Sciences, INC. $492.03 2019-2022
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., INC. $339.96 2019-2022
Redhill Biopharma INC. $204.73 2021-2022
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, INC. $194.58 2019-2020
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC $149.20 2022
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $110.46 2022
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition INC. $100.19 2020-2023
Celgene Corporation $89.07 2021-2022
Qol Medical, LLC $86.92 2021-2022
Evoke Pharma, INC. $67.03 2021-2022
Amgen INC. $56.00 2021
Show all 26 companies
CompanyGeneral paymentsYearsTop products
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $42.67 2019-2022
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, INC $42.20 2019-2020
Ucb, INC. $40.41 2019-2020
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals INC. $38.79 2022
Boston Scientific Corporation $24.14 2019
Ardelyx, INC. $18.27 2022
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, INC. $17.73 2022
Allergan, INC. $17.60 2019
Ferring Pharmaceuticals INC. $16.09 2021
Medtronic, INC. $13.68 2021
Daiichi Sankyo INC. $11.14 2019

1 company reported research payments only; those appear in the research section below.

Drugs and devices associated with these payments

CMS records which products a payment was associated with, not how the money was allocated. Association is not allocation: one payment can be associated with several products, and a product listing does not mean the payment was made because of that product. Product detail covers 2023-2025.

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Payment summary

Charles S Bluhm

$7,480.72

in general payments reported 2019-2025

Years
2019-2023
Top company
Abbvie INC.

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025. Payments are legal and often routine.

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.