Charles Cole, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Little Rock, ARNPI 1891957320
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 439 payments — averaging $52.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Medtronic$5K
- Edwards Lifesciences$3K
- Endologix LLC$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- plus $4K from 33 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $5,617 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 258 | $5,376 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 22 | $2,710 |
| Endologix LLC | 25 | $2,348 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 16 | $1,533 |
| Abbott | 13 | $1,033 |
| Abiomed | 23 | $966 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $730 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 3 | $411 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 4 | $306 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 3 | $269 |
| Davol Inc. | 7 | $221 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $197 |
| Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation | 1 | $165 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $162 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $127 |
| Stryker | 3 | $125 |
| Biom'up SA | 1 | $113 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Merck | 5 | $72 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $57 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| BD | 2 | $46 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $36 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $26 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $18 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$23,090 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arkansas.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Little Rock
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- Karol MudyLittle Rock$335K
- Pouya HemmatiLittle Rock$168K
- Samuel RayburnLittle Rock$115K
- Katy MarinoLittle Rock$99K
- Kristofer FreelandLittle Rock$86K
- Michael NolenLittle Rock$21K
- Jason MuesseLittle Rock$20K
- John StreitmanLittle Rock$14K
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.