Paul Ballard, PA
Physician Assistant · Bossier City, LANPI 1114445798
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $53.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$1K
- Stryker$1K
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$382
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$144
- Vericel Corporation$67
- Bioventus LLC$58
- plus $209 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$52916%
- Food & beverage$1,60148%
- Education$1,20036%
- Other$251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 4 | $1,384 |
| Stryker | 40 | $1,112 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 1 | $382 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $144 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $67 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $58 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $46 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $28 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MAKO$155
- AXSOS$117
- PANGEA$113
- IOVERA SYSTEM$109
How this compares
$3,356 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant providers in Louisiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 183 | $1,266 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 73 | $688 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 35 | $400 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 153 | $345 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $294 |
| Meloxicam | 52 | $186 |
| Methylprednisolone | 30 | $162 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 51 | $130 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 20 | $117 |
| Nabumetone | 21 | $107 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $31 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Bossier City
- Daniel StringerBossier City$6K
- Shelly EsnardBaton Rouge$141K
- Jefferson OberleNew Orleans$66K
- Jennifer ScheuermannNew Orleans$56K
- Claire DarreJefferson$50K
- Elizabeth ClementNew Orleans$35K
- Mary Negrotto GuntherSlidell$29K
- Kristen HebertZachary$27K
- David GsellNew Orleans$26K
- Nakia BrooksNew Orleans$25K
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.