Has Eric Russell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,120 in general payments to Eric Russell, MD across 246 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 Eric Russell, 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 Eric Russell, 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.

Eric Russell, MD

Dermatology · Conway, ARNPI 1033198510

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.0% of the total across 246 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson at 24.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $827 and has fallen 55.5% since, to $368 in 2025.

$4,120in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 246 payments — averaging $16.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson$1K
AbbVie$709
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$632
UCB, Inc.$390
Pfizer$370
Lilly USA, LLC$369
plus $641 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,91295%
Education$2085%

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
Johnson & Johnson	59	$1,009
AbbVie	47	$709
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	29	$632
UCB, Inc.	22	$390
Pfizer	23	$370
Lilly USA, LLC	27	$369
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	13	$210
LEO Pharma Inc.	6	$104
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$69
Sanofi	4	$67
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	4	$61
Kerecis Limited	4	$46
Dermavant Sciences, Inc.	2	$32
Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$20
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	1	$17
Novartis	1	$14

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.

ILUMYA$113

How this compares

$4,120 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 75 dermatology providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$265,023

Medicare patients

1,068

Services billed

4,055

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
Fluorouracil	66	$5,465
Doxycycline Hyclate	103	$3,319
Triamcinolone Acetonide	131	$2,139
Ketoconazole	82	$2,029
Mycophenolate Mofetil	24	$1,907
Clobetasol Propionate	45	$1,876
Betamethasone Dipropionate	36	$1,150
Metronidazole	19	$1,104
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium	23	$819
Clindamycin Phosphate	20	$674
Dapsone	12	$639
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	25	$636
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate	16	$536
Nystatin	21	$378
CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine	16	$361

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Conway

Shelley RussellConway$1K
Sandra JohnsonFort Smith$543K
Scott JacksonFayetteville$533K
Mildred CliftonBentonville$92K
Lance HenryFayetteville$39K
Jennifer JacksPine Bluff$21K
Zachary NahmiasJonesboro$15K
Phillip StitesFort Smith$15K
Brian WayneLittle Rock$13K
Andrea MabryLittle Rock$12K

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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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