Alice Cherqui, MD
Surgery · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1215127832
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $57,363 of the $70,775 with a category attached, or 81.0%. Medtronic accounts for 95.0% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $56,925 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $1,305 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in AR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 111 payments — averaging $637.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$67K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$1K
- Si-bone, Inc.$762
- Innovation Technologies Inc$109
- Abiomed$70
- plus $198 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9751%
- Speaking & faculty fees$57,36381%
- Travel & lodging$9,26313%
- Food & beverage$3,1744%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 67 | $67,207 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 14 | $1,227 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 8 | $1,200 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $762 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $109 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $70 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $56 |
| Nevro Corp. | 2 | $32 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$27,930
- CD HORIZON$7,963
- MazorX - Renaissance$1,482
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$1,439
- iFuse Implant$657
- StealthStation$425
- STEALTHSTATION S8 PLATFORM$122
- PREVELEAK$116
- Irrisept$109
- RECOTHROM$109
- PerClot$109
- TISSEEL$108
- OSTENE$102
How this compares
$70,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 227 surgery providers in Arkansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 52 | $453 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Jonesboro
- Jessica HobbyJonesboro$40K
- Joshua TollesonJonesboro$38K
- Willie HarperJonesboro$20K
- Dexter RichJonesboro$19K
- Joseph HurstonJonesboro$16K
- Joel WhippleJonesboro$13K
- Gregory LynchJonesboro$12K
- Jonathan AltomarJonesboro$11K
- Joshua RollerFayetteville$248K
- Brian PottorfFayetteville$64K
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.