Kyle Kalkwarf, MD
Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1730471376
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $726 of the $1,137 with a category attached, or 63.9%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 96.9% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in AR, where the typical reported total is $1,616.
Across 11 payments — averaging $103.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Intuitive Surgical$36
Across 38 payments — averaging $15,055 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.
- CSL Behring$572K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$72664%
- Food & beverage$41136%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 10 | $1,101 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $36 |
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
$1,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 227 surgery 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.
Other surgery in Little Rock
- Samuel BledsoeLittle Rock$53K
- Michael PollockLittle Rock$45K
- James WalkerLittle Rock$41K
- Eric PaulLittle Rock$22K
- Peter KimLittle Rock$20K
- April TurnerLittle Rock$9K
- Raj PatelLittle Rock$8K
- Bobby PerryLittle Rock$7K
- Joshua RollerFayetteville$248K
- Alice CherquiJonesboro$71K
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.