John Kientz
Internal Medicine · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1568450393
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 104 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $852 and has fallen 87.7% since, to $105 in 2021.
Across 104 payments — averaging $17.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$349
- Amgen$282
- Novo Nordisk$254
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$161
- Lilly USA, LLC$115
- Boehringer Ingelheim$111
- plus $514 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,780100%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $349 |
| Amgen | 15 | $282 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $254 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $161 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $115 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $111 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $90 |
| GSK | 6 | $89 |
| Abbott | 5 | $73 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 3 | $37 |
| Merck | 3 | $37 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 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.
- FARXIGA$125
How this compares
$1,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 614 internal medicine providers in Arkansas.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.