Heather Leblanc, MD
Vascular Surgery · Pine Bluff, ARNPI 1336133826
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $12,500 of the $16,158 with a category attached, or 77.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 94.6% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $14,818 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $152 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $260.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Medtronic$140
- AbbVie$130
- Johnson & Johnson$116
- KCI USA, Inc.$64
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$53
- plus $368 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1401%
- Travel & lodging$2,00912%
- Food & beverage$1,5099%
- Education$12,50077%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 27 | $15,288 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $140 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $116 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 3 | $53 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $49 |
| BD | 1 | $44 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $39 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $32 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$12,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,996
- NURO$140
How this compares
Too few vascular surgery providers in Arkansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 55 | $129 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 19 | $109 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Pine Bluff
- Christopher StoutRogers$333K
- Mohammed MoursiLittle Rock$116K
- Matthew HendrichJonesboro$41K
- Mark WrightJonesboro$28K
- Nestor AritaMountain Home$19K
- Kalenda KasanganaLittle Rock$15K
- Kyla Shelton LangLittle Rock$14K
- Andre RamdonLittle Rock$10K
- Lauren Story-HeftaLittle Rock$9K
- Christian SimmonsLittle Rock$8K
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.