Barry Uretsky
Cardiovascular Disease · Little Rock, ARNPI 1316009731
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $24,000 of the $36,031 with a category attached, or 66.6%. Opsens Inc. accounts for 83.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $30,027 and has fallen 96.5% since, to $1,060 in 2025. Among cardiovascular disease clinicians in AR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 87 payments — averaging $414.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Opsens Inc.$30K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$822
- Philips North America LLC$624
- Biotronik Inc.$446
- plus $1K from 7 others
Across 122 payments — averaging $4779.48 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Livanova USA, Inc.$201K
- Cathworks, Inc.$94K
- Novartis$66K
- Amgen$65K
- Philips North America LLC$34K
- CSL Behring$34K
- plus $88K from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,50015%
- Grants$24,00067%
- Travel & lodging$1,6615%
- Food & beverage$4,86914%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Opsens Inc. | 13 | $30,227 |
| Boston Scientific | 19 | $1,688 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 10 | $1,080 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 8 | $822 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $624 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 13 | $446 |
| Abbott | 6 | $364 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $338 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $297 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 2 | $92 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $10 |
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.
- OptoWire$29,733
- OptoMonitor$29,733
- Watchman$810
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$605
- (5027) Intact Vascular Und$524
- CoreValve Evolut$152
- COROFLOW$146
- Impella$145
- PK Papyrus$140
- Orsiro Mission$140
- MitraClip System$124
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$109
- CROSSBOSS$107
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Ultra Transcatheter Heart Valve$103
- GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$101
How this compares
$36,031 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 130 cardiovascular disease providers in Arkansas.
Other cardiovascular disease in Little Rock
- Ian CawichLittle Rock$294K
- William RollefsonLittle Rock$74K
- Andre PaixaoLittle Rock$73K
- Wesley LaneLittle Rock$46K
- Omar QaqishLittle Rock$45K
- Freddy ChrismanLittle Rock$26K
- Forrest GloverLittle Rock$17K
- Clayton BorgLittle Rock$14K
- David MegoLittle Rock$14K
- Michael HuberLittle Rock$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.