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

PAUL LOGAN HESTER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Emergency Medicine

NPI
1629099460
CMS profile
73856
Location
DANVILLE, KY

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$47,067.42

  • Reported across 156 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$408.72

12 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 $408.72 12

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $408.72 12

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $3,731.59 23
PY2019 $30,436.24 61
PY2020 $4,083.64 8
PY2021 $499.32 6
PY2022 $4,914.23 27
PY2023 $2,993.68 19
PY2024 $408.72 12

Payment records · PY2024 (12)

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
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $7.49 03/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373980 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $132.14 06/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373984 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $7.95 06/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373982 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $128.12 06/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146374000 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $20.18 07/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373986 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $43.00 07/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373990 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $6.81 08/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373988 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $12.99 09/30/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373992 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $20.24 10/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373978 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $15.60 12/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373996 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $8.26 12/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373994 CMS
MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $5.94 12/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146373998 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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