Barara Ball, PA
Family Medicine · Hampstead, MDNPI 1538233390
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 179 payments — averaging $18.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$876
- Pfizer$381
- AstraZeneca$330
- Lilly USA, LLC$301
- Novo Nordisk$271
- Boehringer Ingelheim$122
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,286100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 55 | $876 |
| Pfizer | 19 | $381 |
| AstraZeneca | 17 | $330 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $301 |
| Novo Nordisk | 14 | $271 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $122 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $120 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| Amgen | 6 | $99 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 4 | $78 |
| Merck | 3 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $65 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $59 |
| GSK | 3 | $47 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $31 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $29 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Watermark Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $18 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$3,286 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 27 | $26,814 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 19 | $26,227 |
| EliquisApixaban | 35 | $24,982 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 25 | $23,264 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 16 | $13,635 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 20 | $12,275 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 12 | $11,219 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 22 | $8,787 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 15 | $7,975 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 61 | $6,746 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 16 | $6,235 |
| Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 11 | $4,016 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 265 | $2,730 |
| Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 18 | $2,396 |
| Cimetidine | 11 | $2,186 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $271 | $34,48337 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $301 | $26,81427 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $67 | $26,22719 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $381 | $24,98235 claims |
| GSKBreo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta | $47 | $16,76237 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $330 | $13,63516 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $65 | $12,27520 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $876 | $6,74661 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.
Other family medicine in Hampstead
- Stephen OngOxon Hill$5.9M
- Stephan BartWoodstock$1.7M
- Karen DonaldsonBaltimore$899K
- Rajiv DuaColumbia$765K
- Greg TampusLutherville Timonium$735K
- Louis JacquesBaltimore$522K
- Stephanie MellerOxon Hill$518K
- Sharon ChungGlen Burnie$333K
- Michael ObiefuneBaltimore$291K
- Thomas LawrenceBerlin$254K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.