Christopher Coleman, MD
Surgery · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1962430504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $17,000 of the $25,862 with a category attached, or 65.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.2% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $18,121 and has fallen 96.7% since, to $596 in 2025. Among surgery 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 67 payments — averaging $385.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$21K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Polynovo North America LLC$58
- Innovation Technologies Inc$58
- Biom'up France SAS$41
- plus $287 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,90727%
- Food & beverage$1,9468%
- Education$17,00066%
- Gifts$90%
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 | 22 | $20,749 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $2,884 |
| Medtronic | 15 | $1,785 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $58 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $58 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $41 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $30 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Abbott | 1 | $24 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $19 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$25,862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naloxone Hcl | 15 | $977 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 147 | $781 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 149 | $686 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 93 | $383 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 21 | $32 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 12 | $31 |
| Metronidazole | 21 | $30 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 15 | $28 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $20 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Fort Smith
- Jonathan FerrariFort Smith$20K
- Sarahrose WebsterFort Smith$11K
- Ryan BanningFort Smith$10K
- Camille RichardsFort Smith$9K
- Darryl EckesFort Smith$8K
- Nabil AkkadFort Smith$8K
- Joshua RollerFayetteville$248K
- Alice CherquiJonesboro$71K
- Brian PottorfFayetteville$64K
- Samuel BledsoeLittle Rock$53K
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.