Has Kasa Cooper, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,274 in general payments to Kasa Cooper, MD across 57 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kasa Cooper, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kasa Cooper, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kasa Cooper, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1366805715

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (56.1%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 57.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $8,468 and has fallen 61.2% since, to $3,286 in 2025.

$22,274in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $390.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$13K
Synthes GmbH$3K
Stryker$3K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Johnson & Johnson$365

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,5007%
Travel & lodging$5,99227%
Food & beverage$2,28110%
Education$12,50056%

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
Smith+Nephew	7	$12,856
Synthes GmbH	4	$3,145
Stryker	22	$2,839
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	6	$1,940
Zimmer Biomet	13	$1,130
Johnson & Johnson	5	$365

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

$22,274 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 168 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$60,090

Medicare patients

Services billed

191

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.

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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.

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