Has David Baker, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,294 in general payments to David Baker, MD across 8 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 David Baker, 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 David Baker, 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.

David Baker, MD

Ophthalmology · Conway, ARNPI 1235129552

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,252 of the $1,294 with a category attached, or 96.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,252 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $20 in 2023.

$1,294in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $161.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$1K
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$22
Boston Scientific$20

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,25297%
Food & beverage$423%

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	6	$1,252
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	1	$22
Boston Scientific	1	$20

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$1,195

How this compares

$1,294 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 125 ophthalmology providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$712,215

Medicare patients

1,831

Services billed

7,995

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
Prednisolone Acetate	947	$57,227
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	897	$41,522
Latanoprost	2,107	$17,635
RestasisCyclosporine	26	$16,885
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine	14	$11,727
Timolol Maleate	938	$7,201
Proparacaine Hcl	254	$6,140
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	18	$3,491
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	137	$2,942
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	185	$2,887
Ketorolac Tromethamine	157	$2,860
LumiganBimatoprost	11	$2,787
Brimonidine Tartrate	209	$2,118
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	14	$1,376
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	52	$544

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Melanie SmithConway$1K
Justin ChartonConway$1K
Daniel SinesRogers$81K
Mike McFarlandPine Bluff$63K
Jennifer DoyleLittle Rock$38K
James LinderMarion$18K
Matthew MargolisJonesboro$17K
Thomas StankJonesboro$16K
Andrew PerinNorth Little Rock$4K
Jeffrey HoltHot Springs$4K

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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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