Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

CHRISTOPHER L BALL

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Physician Assistant

NPI
1265138150
CMS profile
11487731
Location
TRAER, IA

General Payments · PY2023–2024

$646.06

  • Reported across 36 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$552.78

30 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $552.78 30

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Amgen Inc. $194.54 14
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $158.09 5
Lilly USA, LLC $75.21 4
Exact Sciences Corporation $44.95 3
Novo Nordisk AS $44.15 2
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $18.83 1
ABBVIE INC. $17.01 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2023 $93.28 6
PY2024 $552.78 30

Payment records · PY2024 (30)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 2023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $17.01 11/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1106476365 CMS
Amgen Inc. $18.20 01/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438247 CMS
Amgen Inc. $8.02 01/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438251 CMS
Amgen Inc. $12.44 02/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438263 CMS
Amgen Inc. $11.78 02/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438233 CMS
Amgen Inc. $17.37 03/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438258 CMS
Amgen Inc. $12.47 04/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438267 CMS
Amgen Inc. $19.08 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438271 CMS
Amgen Inc. $14.45 06/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117500574 CMS
Amgen Inc. $12.03 07/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438237 CMS
Amgen Inc. $12.57 07/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438277 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.50 08/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117500576 CMS
Amgen Inc. $13.97 09/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438281 CMS
Amgen Inc. $14.38 11/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115438241 CMS
Amgen Inc. $12.28 12/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117500578 CMS
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $18.83 12/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1101282626 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $15.80 03/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114489465 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $15.42 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114489471 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $13.73 10/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114489476 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $20.50 01/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135627077 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $16.23 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135602791 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $18.07 06/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135596837 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $20.41 09/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135596839 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $22.32 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100565256 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $21.83 10/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100532799 CMS
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $23.56 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151146860 CMS
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $12.85 09/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151146862 CMS
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $13.79 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151146864 CMS
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $82.39 11/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151146866 CMS
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $25.50 12/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151146868 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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