Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of October 4, 2026.
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Michael Blankinship

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1780826867

Michael Blankinship practises Dermatology in Fargo, North Dakota. Graduated from University of Michigan Medical School in 2009, 17 years ago. Practices with Internal Medicine Associates Inc, a 13-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in North Dakota.

Years since qualifying
17
Trained at
University of Michigan Medical School
Licensed in
ND
In the registry since
2009
Specialties on file
2
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Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Fargo, ND

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Specialties & licences

Dermatology Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207N00000X · Licence 12697 (ND)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number1780826867
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderMale
Sole proprietorNo
NPI enumeratedApril 3, 2009
Last updated in NPPESApril 3, 2024
Certification dateApril 3, 2024

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyDERMATOLOGY
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL
Graduated 2009 (17 years in practice)
Group practice Internal Medicine Associates Inc — 13 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

Melanoma (skin cancer) excision 66 times · 89th percentile
Removal of skin lesions 624 times · 89th percentile
Removal or shaving of skin growth 99 times · 85th percentile
Skin biopsy 24 times · 64th percentile
Removal of nail tissue 1–10 times
Removal of tissue 1–10 times

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients686
Services billed 5,216 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age74

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Compensation for services other than consulting , including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $73,203 31 payments
Consulting Fee $12,529 5 payments
Food and Beverage $2,101 95 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee
Travel and Lodging $422 1 payment · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Education $194 4 payments · educational material or training, not a fee

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

Colleagues at Internal Medicine Associates Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice.

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