James Tucker, MD
Sports Medicine · Little Rock, ARNPI 1144208224
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,092 of the $3,235 with a category attached, or 64.7%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Vericel Corporation at 33.8% of the total.
Across 36 payments — averaging $89.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$1K
- Stryker$742
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$681
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$356
- Johnson & Johnson$141
- Amgen$79
- plus $145 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,09265%
- Food & beverage$80325%
- Education$34111%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 3 | $1,092 |
| Stryker | 7 | $742 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $681 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 2 | $356 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 4 | $141 |
| Amgen | 4 | $79 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $34 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 2 | $20 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$3,235 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 30 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Etodolac | 26 | $936 |
| Celecoxib | 31 | $845 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 38 | $559 |
| Gabapentin | 13 | $99 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 50 | $98 |
| Cefadroxil | 13 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Little Rock
- Michael BogatchLittle Rock$19K
- Kirk ReynoldsLittle Rock$18K
- Eric GordonLittle Rock$13K
- Charles PearceLittle Rock$3K
- Ethan SchockLittle Rock$1K
- Victor VargasLittle Rock$336
- John Vander SchildenLittle Rock$119
- Kathryn NanceLittle Rock$30
- Samuel McClatchyFayetteville$57K
- Austin ColeConway$44K
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.