Eric Akin, MD
Neurological Surgery · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1447220264
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,609 of the $2,360 with a category attached, or 68.2%. Medtronic accounts for 71.4% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,903 and has fallen 97.1% since, to $55 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in AR, where the typical reported total is $2,360.
Across 32 payments — averaging $73.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Nevro Corp.$134
- Incyte Corporation$101
- Si-bone, Inc.$74
- Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$62
- GT Medical Technologies, Inc$55
- plus $249 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,60968%
- Food & beverage$75032%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 9 | $1,686 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $134 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $101 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| GT Medical Technologies, Inc | 1 | $55 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $47 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Stryker | 1 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $26 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
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.
- MazorX - Renaissance$1,184
- StealthStation$425
- MONJUVI$101
How this compares
$2,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 64 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 16 | $232 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $33 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Jonesboro
- Gregory RiccaJonesboro$10K
- Robert AbrahamJonesboro$382
- Rebecca Barrett-TuckJonesboro$360
- Erika PetersenLittle Rock$663K
- James BlankenshipFayetteville$217K
- Keith NorvillHot Springs$91K
- Muhammad KandelHot Springs$76K
- John DayLittle Rock$44K
- Dominic MaggioLittle Rock$34K
- Fred JordanNorth Little Rock$32K
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.