Has Charles Barnes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,147,936 in general payments to Charles Barnes, MD 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 Charles Barnes, MD 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 Charles Barnes, MD 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.

Charles Barnes, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1841276169

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,130,378 of the $2,147,936 with a category attached, or 99.2%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 95.2% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $677,328 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $4,894 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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.

$2,147,936in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $26,518 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$2M
Encore Medical, LP$85K
Microport Orthopedics Inc$14K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Medtronic$800
Corin USA$302
plus $686 from 5 others

$147,157in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $5659.88 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.

Medtronic$129K
Conformis, Inc.$6K
Corin USA$6K
Omnilife Science, Inc$5K
Dova Pharmaceuticals$1K

$218,467in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $31,210 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Spinal Simplicity, LLC$218K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$2,130,37899%
Consulting fees$6,6020%
Speaking & faculty fees$8,2000%
Travel & lodging$2,1270%
Food & beverage$6290%

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
Zimmer Biomet	18	$2,044,883
Encore Medical, LP	35	$85,495
Microport Orthopedics Inc	13	$13,510
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	4	$2,260
Medtronic	1	$800
Corin USA	1	$302
Nanovis LLC	2	$278
Microport Navibot International LLC	2	$171
Exactech, Inc.	2	$142
Globus Medical	2	$75
Baxter Healthcare	1	$21

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.

Persona$1,870,998
A.L.P.S.$173,885
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$74,732
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$57,727
DJO Surgical Empowr Acetabular System$54,268
MPO Medial Pivot Knee$13,278
DJO SURGICAL$10,716
Hip Implant$800
NOVATION HIP$114
Skywalker$100

How this compares

$2,147,936 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 168 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$413,579

Medicare patients

837

Services billed

2,965

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.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Little Rock

Benjamin StronachLittle Rock$2.5M
Kenneth MartinLittle Rock$322K
David BumpassLittle Rock$175K
Lawrence O'MalleyLittle Rock$151K
Jason SmithLittle Rock$102K
Richard McCarthyLittle Rock$75K
Jacob TauntonLittle Rock$62K
Jeffrey ReeseLittle Rock$59K
Justin RabinowitzLittle Rock$45K
Paul InclanLittle Rock$29K

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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.

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