James Cooper
Family Medicine · Benton, ARNPI 1437284189
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 518 payments — averaging $12.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$827
- AstraZeneca$777
- Pfizer$452
- AbbVie$442
- Amgen$412
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$362
- plus $3K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,32798%
- Education$1142%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 84 | $827 |
| AstraZeneca | 49 | $777 |
| Pfizer | 46 | $452 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 36 | $442 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 30 | $412 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 20 | $362 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 26 | $357 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 19 | $330 |
| Novartis | 19 | $295 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 30 | $289 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $253 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $249 |
| Novo Nordisk | 18 | $210 |
| Merck | 20 | $199 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 26 | $190 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 13 | $165 |
| Abbott | 10 | $150 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 7 | $88 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 4 | $59 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $34 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 2 | $22 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$105
How this compares
$6,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,347 family medicine providers in Arkansas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tolterodine Tartrate ErTolterodine Tartrate | 12 | $2,034 |
| Ibandronate Sodium | 12 | $1,035 |
| Baclofen | 12 | $641 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 41 | $585 |
| Potassium Chloride | 21 | $302 |
| Propranolol Hcl | 12 | $205 |
| Simvastatin | 24 | $187 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $185 |
| Metformin Hcl | 12 | $183 |
| Glimepiride | 15 | $138 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $128 |
| Alendronate Sodium | 12 | $121 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 15 | $91 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 16 | $49 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Benton
- Mark AlbeyBenton$58K
- Jared DixonBenton$13K
- George KonisLittle Rock$26.6M
- Kevin RobertsLittle Rock$2.5M
- Derek LewisLittle Rock$1.7M
- Jodi SansonHot Springs$1.7M
- Senthil RaghavanLittle Rock$496K
- Broderick EatonWynne$442K
- Landon HumphreyConway$417K
- Vonda HouchinHarrisburg$206K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.