Hector Soriano-Baron, MD
Neurological Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1588051718
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,333 of the $9,698 with a category attached, or 75.6%. Globus Medical accounts for 66.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 53 payments — averaging $182.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$6K
- Stryker$3K
- Brainlab, Inc.$82
- Icotec Medical Inc.$68
- DJO, LLC$35
- Johnson & Johnson$28
- plus $60 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,33376%
- Food & beverage$2,36524%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 17 | $6,444 |
| Stryker | 27 | $2,981 |
| Brainlab, Inc. | 2 | $82 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $27 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $22 |
| Spineology Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- RISE-L$2,032
- XLIF$1,764
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,624
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,544
- SERRATO$548
- AVS NAVIGATOR$258
- EXCELSIUS$245
- CALIBER$156
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$137
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$137
- OPUS$126
- OASYS$103
How this compares
$9,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 | 14 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Little Rock
- Erika PetersenLittle Rock$663K
- John DayLittle Rock$44K
- Dominic MaggioLittle Rock$34K
- Viktoras PalysLittle Rock$14K
- Analiz RodriguezLittle Rock$13K
- Gautam GandhiLittle Rock$11K
- Blake PhillipsLittle Rock$10K
- Deanna Sasaki AdamsLittle Rock$7K
- Brad ThomasLittle Rock$3K
- Bryan LieberLittle Rock$3K
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.