Muhammad Arshad, MD
Pain Medicine · Little Rock, ARNPI 1124068762
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $460 of the $644 with a category attached, or 71.4%. Boston Scientific accounts for 71.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $478, more than ten times the $11 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in AR, where the typical reported total is $3,271.
Across 11 payments — averaging $58.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$460
- Pfizer$31
- BD$27
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$22
- GRT US Holding, Inc.$21
- Johnson & Johnson$20
- plus $62 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$46071%
- Food & beverage$18429%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $460 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $31 |
| BD | 1 | $27 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $18 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $11 |
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
$644 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 53 pain medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 715 | $17,913 |
| OxycontinOxycodone Hcl | 34 | $16,985 |
| Hysingla ErHydrocodone Bitartrate | 24 | $12,409 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 686 | $10,083 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 361 | $9,651 |
| BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl | 11 | $6,540 |
| Lidocaine | 99 | $6,423 |
| Oxymorphone Hcl ErOxymorphone Hcl | 13 | $5,312 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 152 | $4,940 |
| Buprenorphine | 13 | $4,350 |
| Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate | 146 | $4,156 |
| Naloxone Hcl | 52 | $3,351 |
| Gabapentin | 266 | $2,592 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 177 | $1,906 |
| Morphine Sulfate | 83 | $1,473 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca | $22 | $6,54011 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 25th percentile of 53 pain medicine providers in Arkansas.
Other pain medicine in Little Rock
- Stephen PaulusLittle Rock$75K
- Julio OlayaLittle Rock$22K
- Christopher MocekLittle Rock$10K
- Ann IkonneLittle Rock$8K
- Saint AdeogbaLittle Rock$6K
- Andrew CainLittle Rock$5K
- Krishnappa PrasadLittle Rock$5K
- Thomas HartLittle Rock$4K
- James CaldwellLittle Rock$4K
- Terry FletcherLittle Rock$3K
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.