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Industry payments to physicians · Arkansas · 2024

Arkansas

In Arkansas, drug and device makers reported $13M in general payments to 8,499 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,497 each — plus $44M tied to research and $2M in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$13M
general payments
8,499
covered recipients paid
$1,497
mean per physician

Top specialties in Arkansas

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Family $2M
Orthopaedic Surgery $1M
Gastroenterology $566,197
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology $505,552
Psychiatry $500,640
Family Medicine $485,567
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism $396,162
Dermatology $342,902
Physician Assistant $329,299
Neurology $290,798
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery $288,712
Pulmonary Disease $281,473

Highest-paid physicians in Arkansas

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Leah Carrington Family · Rogers · top payer: Skye Orthobiologics LLC $2M
Benjamin Stronach Orthopaedic Surgery · Little Rock · top payer: TightLine Development, LLC $841,472
Glenn Davis Gastroenterology · Little Rock · top payer: Affordable Pharmaceuticals, LLC $443,602
Devi Nair Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Jonesboro · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $417,792
David Collins Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Little Rock · top payer: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc. $241,181
Jared Seale Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Little Rock · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $228,447
Aravindhan Veerapandiyan Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology · Little Rock · top payer: Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. $170,415
Richard Griffiths Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Little Rock · top payer: Kedplasma LLC $153,031
Leslie Smith Psychiatry · Little Rock · top payer: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $143,394
Sandra Johnson Dermatology · Fort Smith · top payer: Amgen Inc. $140,016
Scott Jackson Dermatology · Fayetteville · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $130,544
Tad Tillemans Psychiatry · Little Rock · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $124,124
Steven Kory Psychiatry · Elm Springs · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $117,774
Ladly Abraham Pulmonary Disease · Conway · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $115,244
Erika Petersen Neurological Surgery · Little Rock · top payer: Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $110,033
Johnathan Goree Anesthesiology · Little Rock · top payer: Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. $108,616
Catherine Kilpatrick Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Fayetteville · top payer: Dexcom, Inc. $107,679
James Thrasher Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism · Little Rock · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $87,333
Honey Schaumburg Physician Assistant · Fort Smith · top payer: Janssen Biotech, Inc. $76,781
Gloria Richard-Davis Reproductive Endocrinology · Little Rock · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $73,624
Kathryn Chenault Neurology · Sherwood · top payer: EMD Serono, Inc. $69,347
Andrew Johnson Prosthodontics · Rogers · top payer: Envista Holdings Corporation $62,200
Christen Coats Optometrist · Rogers · top payer: Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $61,241
Adrienne Easterling Physician Assistant · Rogers · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $59,504
Eric Schaefer Hematology & Oncology · Fayetteville · top payer: Cornerstone Specialty Network LLC $59,360

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Arkansas — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.