Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Paul Ballard

Physician Assistant Bossier City, LA Physician Assistant

NPI 1114445798 CMS profile 11215941

5025 Shed Rd, Bossier City, LA 71111

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General payments

$3,356

63 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, Paul Ballard of Bossier City, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,356 across 63 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 87th percentile of Physician Assistant 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 $593 15
2024 General $233 12
2023 General $86 4
2022 General $215 9
2021 General $2,228 23

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Paul Ballard
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Paul Ballard were reported at $593. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Paul Ballard Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $2,228 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $215 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $86 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $233 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $593 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $1,384 4 payments
  2. Stryker Corporation $1,112 40 payments
  3. Midsouth Orthopedics $382 1 payment
  4. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $144 3 payments
  5. Vericel Corporation $67 2 payments
  6. Bioventus LLC $58 3 payments
  7. Curonix LLC $46 1 payment
  8. Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. $29 2 payments
  9. Avanos Medical $28 2 payments
  10. Welch Allyn $25 1 payment
  11. Other $81 4 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,601 59 payments
  2. Education $1,200 1 payment
  3. Travel and Lodging $529 2 payments
  4. Debt forgiveness $25 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. MAKO $481 13 payments
  2. PANGEA $247 7 payments
  3. AXSOS $149 2 payments
  4. GAMMA $128 11 payments
  5. Iovera System $125 2 payments
  6. MACI $67 2 payments
  7. PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A $46 1 payment
  8. Durolane $40 2 payments
  9. ACCOLADE $39 2 payments
  10. EUFLEXXA $29 2 payments
  11. Other $276 16 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 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

653

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$3,727

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

45.5%

Median for Physician Assistant: 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
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 183 $1,266
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 73 $688
Ketorolac Tromethamine Generic 35 $400
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl Generic 153 $345
Ondansetron Odt Ondansetron Brand 21 $294
Meloxicam Generic 52 $186
Methylprednisolone Generic 30 $162
Tramadol Hcl Generic 51 $130
Acetaminophen-Codeine Acetaminophen With Codeine Brand 20 $117
Nabumetone Generic 21 $107

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 80 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$66,724

Of which drugs: $7,223

Medicare patients

366

Average age 74

Services billed

10,788

230 women, 136 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 75%
Diabetes 32%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Chronic kidney disease 23%
Depression 22%
Osteoporosis 21%
Atrial fibrillation 16%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7325 Office 14 928 $6,016
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 Office 79 8,563 $813
Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 Office 27 35 $207

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.

Records

63 reported

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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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