Heather Sams
Physician Assistant · Bentonville, ARNPI 1154389419
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 238 payments — averaging $15.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- CSL Behring$1K
- Sanofi$442
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$276
- AstraZeneca$272
- GSK$251
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$224
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$100%
- Food & beverage$3,34490%
- Education$3479%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CSL Behring | 109 | $1,116 |
| Sanofi | 20 | $442 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $276 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $272 |
| GSK | 17 | $251 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $224 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 11 | $215 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 8 | $146 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 11 | $143 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 3 | $106 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Novartis | 4 | $86 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $77 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 3 | $55 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Greer Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $24 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $11 |
| ADMA Biomanufacturing LLC | 1 | $10 |
How this compares
$3,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 451 physician assistant providers in Arkansas.
Other physician assistant in Bentonville
- Ryan CrowderBentonville$9K
- Brittany AguirreBentonville$7K
- Kara RichardsonBentonville$5K
- Jenny SimmonsBentonville$5K
- Teresa McKinneyBentonville$4K
- Whitney OliverBentonville$4K
- Honey SchaumburgFort Smith$397K
- Adrienne EasterlingRogers$366K
- Katherine RossLittle Rock$44K
- Benton LoggainsFort Smith$39K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.