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

CARA B BALLARD

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine

NPI
1457310476
CMS profile
404162
Location
BENTON, AR

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$5,248.98

  • Reported across 337 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$263.60

15 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 $263.60 15

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Abbott Laboratories $64.53 3
PFIZER INC. $52.61 3
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $44.97 3
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $40.51 2
Exact Sciences Corporation $16.07 1
Astellas Pharma US Inc $15.79 1
Lilly USA, LLC $15.22 1
Amgen Inc. $13.90 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $297.54 25
PY2019 $345.21 26
PY2020 $393.82 24
PY2021 $1,521.56 100
PY2022 $1,290.47 78
PY2023 $1,136.78 69
PY2024 $263.60 15

Payment records · PY2024 (15)

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

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 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
Abbott Laboratories $24.23 03/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125073516 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $17.29 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125073518 CMS
Abbott Laboratories $23.01 04/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1125073520 CMS
Amgen Inc. $13.90 10/29/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1117196892 CMS
Astellas Pharma US Inc $15.79 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139333960 CMS
Exact Sciences Corporation $16.07 03/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1114584327 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $24.99 10/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1116246924 CMS
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $15.52 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1115928706 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $15.22 11/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1136080630 CMS
PFIZER INC. $16.30 04/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131727837 CMS
PFIZER INC. $16.52 06/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131736662 CMS
PFIZER INC. $19.79 08/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131882476 CMS
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $14.35 01/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1148824156 CMS
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $15.22 03/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1148824158 CMS
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. $15.40 09/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1148824160 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
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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