Frank Arko, MD
Surgery · Blythe, CANPI 1194705962
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $169.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Cook Medical LLC$2K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Cook Incorporated$2K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$945
- Medtronic$883
- plus $2K from 7 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $613.75 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cook Research Incorporated$2K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50014%
- Travel & lodging$5,53151%
- Food & beverage$3,80935%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 15 | $2,673 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 6 | $1,672 |
| Globus Medical | 8 | $1,650 |
| Cook Incorporated | 2 | $1,533 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 11 | $945 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 14 | $883 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 1 | $700 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $482 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $404 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $274 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 4 | $260 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Cook Medical Zenith$1,962
- Indigo System$1,812
- INDEPENDENCE MIS$1,091
- Cook Medical Interventional Radiology$798
- Indigo$465
- Vascular Lithotripsy$465
- ENDURANT IIS$411
- VASOVIEW Hemopro$404
- IGT Systems Und$360
- Penumbra Ruby Coil$314
- Cook Medical Aortic Intervention$239
- Endurant$196
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$178
- RISE-L$165
- Hedron$163
- Product in Development$128
- (4066) Tack Endo Sys ATK$122
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Endoprosthesis$108
- Sable$104
How this compares
$11,540 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,363 surgery providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 32 | $480 |
| Cephalexin | 18 | $149 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $44 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Blythe
- Timothy ChuterSan Francisco$8.9M
- Peter StockSan Francisco$6.5M
- Santiago HorganSan Diego$2.8M
- Kenneth DeckLaguna Hills$2.4M
- Daniel RiskinSan Jose$2.2M
- Michael DemeureNewport Beach$1.7M
- Rock LiuHayward$1.6M
- David LouriePasadena$1.4M
- Andrea PakulaThousand Oaks$1.4M
- Siew-Ming LeeFresno$1.3M
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.