Has Amber Billiard received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,684 in general payments to Amber Billiard across 81 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Amber Billiard did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Amber Billiard come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Amber Billiard

Family · Bentonville, ARNPI 1629844030

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 81 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,143, more than ten times the $17 reported in 2023.

$1,684in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $20.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$332
AbbVie$288
AstraZeneca$218
Lilly USA, LLC$130
Ardelyx, Inc.$122
Novo Nordisk$98
plus $497 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,684100%

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
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	10	$332
AbbVie	19	$288
AstraZeneca	10	$218
Lilly USA, LLC	7	$130
Ardelyx, Inc.	5	$122
Novo Nordisk	1	$98
Johnson & Johnson	4	$69
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	3	$55
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	3	$50
Exact Sciences	3	$47
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$45
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$37
Celltrion USA Inc.	2	$34
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$31
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$29
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$26
Lundbeck LLC	1	$22
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$19
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$17
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	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.

IQIRVO$125

How this compares

$1,684 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,103 family providers in Arkansas.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	17	$228
Doxycycline Hyclate	29	$175
Nitrofurantoin Mono-MacroNitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst	14	$161
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	19	$124
Cephalexin	15	$72
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	13	$56
Azithromycin	14	$32
Prednisone	15	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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