Chris Cate, MD
Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1285689455
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $22.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$405
- TAS Medical, Inc.$282
- Johnson & Johnson$118
- TELA Bio, Inc.$117
- Abbott$48
- Medtronic$41
- plus $192 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$151%
- Food & beverage$1,18899%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $405 |
| TAS Medical, Inc. | 4 | $282 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $118 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $117 |
| Abbott | 2 | $48 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $41 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $33 |
| Osiris Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $4 |
How this compares
$1,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 108 | $464 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 86 | $454 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 73 | $177 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 31 | $177 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $9 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Samuel BledsoeLittle Rock$53K
- Michael PollockLittle Rock$45K
- James WalkerLittle Rock$41K
- Eric PaulLittle Rock$22K
- Peter KimLittle Rock$20K
- April TurnerLittle Rock$9K
- Raj PatelLittle Rock$8K
- Joshua RollerFayetteville$248K
- Alice CherquiJonesboro$71K
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.