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

CEDRIC J RUFFIN

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Physician Assistant

NPI
1730628140
CMS profile
11158461
Location
MERIDIAN, MS

General Payments · PY2021–2023

$175.21

  • Reported across 11 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$105.48

6 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 $105.48 6

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Novo Nordisk AS $49.52 3
Gilead Sciences, Inc. $21.74 1
Abbott Laboratories $20.92 1
ABBVIE INC. $13.30 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $38.69 3
PY2022 $31.04 2
PY2023 $105.48 6

Payment records · PY2023 (6)

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
Abbott Laboratories $20.92 12/26/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1018989513 CMS
ABBVIE INC. $13.30 06/28/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1009631169 CMS
Gilead Sciences, Inc. $21.74 06/21/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1025755621 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $20.23 06/22/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002510613 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $14.20 07/18/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002510589 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.09 11/28/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1002510601 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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