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

SARA B BALL

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner Family

NPI
1548771447
CMS profile
10577351
Location
KINGSPORT, TN

General Payments · PY2021–2023

$2,244.99

  • Reported across 149 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$359.68

19 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

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $359.68 19

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $988.44 72
PY2022 $896.87 58
PY2023 $359.68 19

Payment records · PY2023 (19)

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

Program year 2023 20212022 Record-level detail is published for PY2023; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ABBVIE INC. $20.95 01/10/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002749589 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $17.79 03/29/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002749603 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $18.88 07/27/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002749617 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $12.88 08/14/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002749628 CMS
ATRICURE, INC. $61.85 08/10/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1012176921 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $15.49 01/17/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1005535885 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16.49 02/23/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1005545267 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $16.78 03/16/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1005548095 CMS
Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $14.05 04/18/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1005521823 CMS
Gilead Sciences, Inc. $18.80 04/12/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1025862645 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $13.72 02/21/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1033573927 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $13.67 05/02/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1033232223 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $20.78 03/09/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 991538547 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $14.63 04/05/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 991538559 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $12.82 01/03/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002366113 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $17.41 05/02/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002366125 CMS
PFIZER INC. $15.17 04/25/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1049686589 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $18.94 03/01/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1057131899 CMS
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18.58 04/27/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1056567583 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
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2023_P01232026_01102026.csv

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