Karol Mudy, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Little Rock, ARNPI 1487814273
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $13,067 of the $21,494 with a category attached, or 60.8%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 37.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,993, 9.2 times the $760 reported in 2019.
Across 207 payments — averaging $103.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$8K
- Bolton Medical Inc$3K
- Artivion, Inc.$3K
- Abiomed$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$1K
- Medtronic$883
- plus $3K from 16 others
Across 64 payments — averaging $4895.64 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$176K
- Transmedics, Inc.$137K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,80013%
- Travel & lodging$5,60226%
- Food & beverage$13,06761%
- Education$260%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 73 | $8,133 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 20 | $3,327 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 6 | $3,039 |
| Abiomed | 25 | $1,513 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 19 | $1,398 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $883 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $699 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 5 | $449 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 3 | $398 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 10 | $366 |
| Corcym Inc | 5 | $312 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $203 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $129 |
| Stryker | 4 | $125 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 1 | $110 |
| Briohealth Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Clearflow Inc. | 4 | $26 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| Merck | 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.
- On-X$2,800
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$1,980
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$1,974
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$986
- Impella$868
- CardioMEMS HF System$853
- Epic$502
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Dev$460
- Avalus$408
- Barostim Neo System$368
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$286
- STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$275
- Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve$202
- THORAFLEX HYBRID$188
- Memo4D$168
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$154
- PHOTOFIX DECELLULARIZED BOVINE PERICARDIUM$154
- HeartMate Touch$148
- Relay Grafts$144
- SJM REGENT$144
How this compares
$21,494 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th 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 Little Rock
- Bassam ShukrallahLittle Rock$325K
- Pouya HemmatiLittle Rock$168K
- Katy MarinoLittle Rock$99K
- Charles ColeLittle Rock$23K
- Jason MuesseLittle Rock$20K
- Kristofer FreelandLittle Rock$16K
- Michael NolenLittle Rock$15K
- John StreitmanLittle Rock$14K
- John RansomLittle Rock$12K
- David DeanLittle Rock$8K
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.