Nurse Practitioner Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Heather Ballard

Nurse Practitioner Mayfield, KY Nurse Practitioner

NPI 1538615570 CMS profile 11221482

1029 Medical Center Cir, Suite 306, Mayfield, KY 42066

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General payments

$6,515

398 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Heather Ballard of Mayfield, KY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,515 across 398 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Nurse Practitioner profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,292 78
2024 General $1,377 69
2023 General $1,162 65
2022 General $1,348 84
2021 General $1,337 102

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Heather Ballard
  • Nurse Practitioner median
  • Middle half of Nurse Practitioner
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Heather Ballard were reported at $1,292. Among 41,044 Nurse Practitioner profiles paid that year, the median was $174 and the middle half received between $55 and $557.

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Year Heather Ballard Nurse Practitioner median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $50 $22–$97 $163
2020 $0 $40 $16–$108 $114
2021 $1,337 $135 $40–$426 $132
2022 $1,348 $152 $48–$470 $149
2023 $1,162 $166 $54–$529 $160
2024 $1,377 $173 $55–$556 $164
2025 $1,292 $174 $55–$557 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,328 96 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $1,238 82 payments
  3. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $1,148 61 payments
  4. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $389 21 payments
  5. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $301 15 payments
  6. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $281 16 payments
  7. Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $230 15 payments
  8. Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $221 12 payments
  9. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals $215 13 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $168 9 payments
  11. Other $996 58 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,498 397 payments
  2. Education $18 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. STELARA $829 43 payments
  2. XIFAXAN $758 50 payments
  3. TRULANCE $571 46 payments
  4. LINZESS Gastroenterology $524 29 payments
  5. CREON $416 21 payments
  6. RINVOQ $391 27 payments
  7. Linzess Gi $389 21 payments
  8. TREMFYA $319 18 payments
  9. ENTYVIO $301 15 payments
  10. SIMPONI ARIA $275 17 payments
  11. Other $3,194 197 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 26 drugs

Part D claims

1,515

Median for Nurse Practitioner: 389

Drug cost

$390,421

Median for Nurse Practitioner: $21,885

Branded share of claims

21.4%

Median for Nurse Practitioner: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 21 $168,402
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 102 $63,683
Xifaxan Rifaximin Brand 19 $56,588
Pentasa Mesalamine Brand 14 $30,231
Mesalamine Er Mesalamine Brand 46 $19,888
Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 17 $18,561
Sucralfate Generic 125 $7,458
Dexlansoprazole Dr Dexlansoprazole Brand 49 $6,326
Omeprazole Generic 412 $2,935
Lubiprostone Generic 22 $2,753

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 26 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 229,976 Part D prescribers listed as Nurse Practitioner; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 6 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$28,178

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

260

Average age 71

Services billed

434

152 women, 108 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 52%
Diabetes 40%
Depression 32%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
COPD 27%
Heart failure 20%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 18 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
LINZESS
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $113
  • AbbVie, Inc. $101
$214 102 —
XIFAXAN
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $153
$153 19 —
ENTYVIO
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $120
$120 — —
STELARA
  • Janssen Biotech, Inc. $107
$107 — —
CREON
  • AbbVie, Inc. $101
$101 17 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

398 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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