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

RUTH L SEPPALA

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner Family

NPI
1851451694
CMS profile
11159356
Location
TUCSON, AZ

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$295.32

  • Reported across 17 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$161.43

9 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 $161.43 9

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Acerta Pharma LLC $89.54 5
Astellas Pharma US Inc $22.53 1
Novo Nordisk AS $17.67 1
ABBVIE INC. $17.62 1
Lilly USA, LLC $14.07 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $47.12 3
PY2022 $65.36 4
PY2023 $21.41 1
PY2024 $161.43 9

Payment records · PY2024 (9)

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
ABBVIE INC. $17.62 04/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1108173728 CMS
Astellas Pharma US Inc $22.53 11/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139557395 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $19.62 03/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105809199 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $17.55 04/18/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105824985 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $19.28 05/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105901496 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.33 08/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104467556 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.76 09/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104566304 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $14.07 09/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135883467 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $17.67 06/15/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100244049 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

One page per canonical provider; split Profile_IDs are merged via Associated_Covered_Recipient_Profile_ID_1/_2 from the Covered Recipient Profile Supplement.

Corrections to the substance of a record route to CMS through its review-and-dispute process; errors in how this site mirrors or displays a record route to us. Both paths are described in Methodology & Data.