Donald Arms, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Hartford, KYNPI 1548233661
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 50 payments — averaging $19.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$290
- Stryker$155
- Johnson & Johnson$95
- AbbVie$75
- Mimedx Group, Inc.$71
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$69
- plus $231 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$986100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 18 | $290 |
| Stryker | 4 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $95 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $75 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $69 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $39 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $22 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Dynasplint Systems Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 322 orthopaedic surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic | 59 | $3,614 |
| Raloxifene Hcl | 100 | $2,393 |
| Calcitriol | 64 | $2,248 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 101 | $965 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 252 | $956 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 59 | $877 |
| Allopurinol | 122 | $800 |
| Celecoxib | 35 | $720 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 116 | $348 |
| Mupirocin | 42 | $239 |
| Meloxicam | 84 | $188 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 60 | $169 |
| Cephalexin | 22 | $142 |
| Gabapentin | 29 | $71 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Hartford
- Arthur MalkaniLouisville$9.9M
- Jonathan YerasimidesLouisville$4.3M
- John LewisLouisville$1.6M
- Samer HasanCrestview Hills$1.3M
- Akbar NawabLouisville$1M
- Brent MorrisLexington$901K
- Phillip SingerBowling Green$816K
- Clint HillPaducah$698K
- Paul MatuszewskiLexington$634K
- Joseph GreeneLouisville$584K
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.