Dylan Carpenter, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Batesville, ARNPI 1710145701
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (34.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 29.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,477, 8.4 times the $294 reported in 2019.
Across 71 payments — averaging $80.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$2K
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$1K
- Coloplast$896
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$893
- Amgen$365
- Radius Health, Inc.$269
- plus $409 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$89616%
- Travel & lodging$1,67529%
- Food & beverage$1,94734%
- Education$1,20021%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 14 | $1,684 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $896 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $893 |
| Amgen | 24 | $365 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 12 | $269 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $79 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $77 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $40 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $11 |
| Heraeus Medical, 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.
- MAKO$1,242
- SenSura Mio$896
- NEOX$747
- CLARIX$747
How this compares
$5,717 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 168 orthopaedic 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 | 139 | $1,091 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 127 | $622 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 11 | $404 |
| Meloxicam | 129 | $379 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 66 | $170 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Batesville
- Benjamin StronachLittle Rock$2.5M
- Charles BarnesLittle Rock$2.1M
- Kenneth MartinLittle Rock$322K
- Wesley CoxFayetteville$309K
- William HefleyNorth Little Rock$306K
- David BumpassLittle Rock$175K
- Lawrence O'MalleyLittle Rock$151K
- Jason BrandtJonesboro$104K
- Jason SmithLittle Rock$102K
- Richard McCarthyLittle Rock$75K
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.