Lee Forestiere, MD
General Surgery · Pine Bluff, ARNPI 1447216270
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 28 payments — averaging $21.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$130
- Johnson & Johnson$72
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$53
- BD$44
- Smith+Nephew$37
- Convatec Inc.$37
- plus $226 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$295%
- Food & beverage$56995%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $72 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 3 | $53 |
| BD | 1 | $44 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $37 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $32 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $29 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
Too few general surgery providers in Arkansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Clindamycin Hcl | 19 | $182 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 63 | $131 |
| Anastrozole | 16 | $100 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other general surgery in Pine Bluff
- Lon BitzerPine Bluff$79
- James LangstonHarrison$42
- Kennan BuechterParagould$0
- Sahibzada AhmedBooneville$0
- Eric GrahamHarrison$0
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.