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

RALPH M HAYS

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner Critical Care Medicine

NPI
1528039922
CMS profile
10696224
Location
LAKE CHARLES, LA

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$1,967.58

  • Reported across 121 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$387.51

22 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 $387.51 22

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $663.26 42
PY2022 $448.65 28
PY2023 $468.16 29
PY2024 $387.51 22

Payment records · PY2024 (22)

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

Program year 2024 202120222023 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
Boston Scientific Corporation $35.72 03/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1092587047 CMS
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plc $13.82 04/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1154859128 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $29.81 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844463 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $18.17 03/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844467 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $15.27 05/02/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844469 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $13.32 06/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844471 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $27.37 06/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844477 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $10.51 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844473 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $4.20 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844475 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $21.23 08/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844481 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23.44 09/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844483 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $2.26 10/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844485 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $18.93 10/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844487 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $9.23 11/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844493 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $12.73 12/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1086844495 CMS
PFIZER INC. $19.37 03/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131282527 CMS
PFIZER INC. $20.72 04/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131402474 CMS
PFIZER INC. $31.92 05/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131458059 CMS
PFIZER INC. $20.52 07/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131770148 CMS
SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC. $17.74 01/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1132241606 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $9.87 09/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080683860 CMS
ZOLL Services LLC (A/K/A ZOLL LifeCor Corp) $11.36 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1080683878 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
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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