Robert Ballard

What was reported, 2019–2025

$1,612

General payments

60 separate payments. What they were, as CMS records them, is below.

$0

Research payments

Funding for a study, usually paid to an institution with this doctor named on it. Not added to general payments, and not income.

$21,599

Ownership and investment

The value of a stake this doctor or an immediate family member held.

0

Disputed

This doctor has contested none of the payments reported about them.

How this compares

General payments: $1,612, 2019–⁠2025

By the amount companies reported, 3,547th among the 4,895 profiles with general payments in Vascular Surgery.

General payments: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total

Nationally	427,489th of 1,688,859
In Wisconsin	4,353rd of 22,620
In Vascular Surgery	3,547th of 4,895
Profiles below it nationally	More than 74%
Share of the national total	< 0.1%

Ownership and investment: $21,599, 2019–⁠2025

By the amount companies reported, 30th among the 35 profiles with ownership or investment interests in Vascular Surgery.

Ownership and investment: this profile's rank in each group, its place among the profiles nationally and its share of the national total

Nationally	2,219th of 3,979
In Wisconsin	39th of 53
In Vascular Surgery	30th of 35
Profiles below it nationally	More than 44%
Share of the national total	< 0.1%

What the payments were

Each payment as the manufacturer categorized it when reporting it to CMS, across 2019–2025. Together they are the general payments above. A category is the reporter’s, and nothing in the record says a payment in any of them was improper.

By program year

CMS reports a program year at a time and also publishes its own total across them, which is what the figures above are. These rows are that total taken apart, not a second set of payments.

The record

National Provider Identifier

1902898182

The identifier this page is addressed by, and the one both CMS files share.

Specialty

Vascular Surgery

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians, in CMS's taxonomy.

Licensed in

WI

The state of the license CMS lists first.

Recipient type

Covered Recipient Physician

How CMS classifies the recipient of these payments.

Medicare prescribing

What this provider billed to Medicare Part D in 2024, as CMS published it. Medicare Part D only: what they prescribed outside it is not here.

535

Claims

Prescriptions and refills billed to Part D, as CMS counts them.

$47,390

Total drug cost

What Part D, the plan and the patient paid together. Not what this provider was paid — they are paid nothing out of it.

206

Beneficiaries

People with at least one prescription from this provider.

51

Brand-name claims

Of the claims above, those for a brand-name drug.

484

Generic claims

Of the claims above, those for a generic.

82

Opioid claims

CMS puts this provider's opioid prescribing rate at 15.327102803738319% of their claims. That is their figure, computed from their own unsuppressed data.

14

Antibiotic claims

Claims for an antibiotic.

General Surgery

Prescriber type

As CMS classifies this prescriber. Credentials: MD.

A blank is not a zero. CMS withholds a value between 1 and 10, and withholds the next lowest alongside it so the first cannot be worked out by subtraction — so a withheld figure is not even evidence that the number was small. Rows for ten or fewer claims are removed from the file altogether, which is why the parts of a total can be withheld while the total is published.

Elsewhere

• Payments to doctors in Wisconsin — what was reported across the state this doctor practises in.
• What drug and device companies pay doctors — the national picture these figures are part of.
• This record at CMS — the publisher’s own page for this profile.
• The NPI registry — who this identifier belongs to, at CMS.