Jay Bhama, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1760491989
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 614 payments — averaging $730.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$176K
- Abiomed$116K
- Abbott$106K
- Livanova USA, Inc.$37K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Medtronic$2K
- plus $9K from 26 others
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 66 | $176,340 |
| Abiomed | 142 | $115,967 |
| Abbott | 110 | $105,624 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 72 | $36,880 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 48 | $2,397 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 26 | $2,190 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,565 |
| Davol Inc. | 43 | $1,552 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 15 | $1,284 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 24 | $1,026 |
| Boston Scientific | 14 | $623 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 9 | $544 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 3 | $405 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 4 | $398 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $372 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 3 | $200 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $129 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $109 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $105 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $105 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $89 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $55 |
| BD | 2 | $55 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Medistim USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $14 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $12 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$448,255 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 48 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Arkansas.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Jonesboro
- Ronald SmithJonesboro$4K
- Paul LevyJonesboro$1K
- Damon KennedyJonesboro$652
- Michael RabornJonesboro$131
- John RansomLittle Rock$430K
- Bassam ShukrallahLittle Rock$401K
- Karol MudyLittle Rock$335K
- James SpannRogers$260K
- Pouya HemmatiLittle Rock$168K
- Samuel RayburnLittle Rock$115K
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.