Darryl Eckes, MD
Surgery · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1982635991
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,000 of the $8,398 with a category attached, or 83.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $7,159 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $26 in 2025.
Across 28 payments — averaging $299.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$7K
- Stryker$518
- Acell, Inc.$111
- KCI USA, Inc.$76
- Innovation Technologies Inc$55
- Smith+Nephew$42
- plus $242 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5186%
- Food & beverage$85310%
- Education$7,00083%
- Gifts$270%
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 | 9 | $7,353 |
| Stryker | 1 | $518 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $55 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $42 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $32 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $26 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 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.
How this compares
$8,398 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th 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.
Other surgery in Fort Smith
- Christopher ColemanFort Smith$26K
- Jonathan FerrariFort Smith$20K
- Sarahrose WebsterFort Smith$11K
- Ryan BanningFort Smith$10K
- Camille RichardsFort Smith$9K
- 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.