Has Patricia Bell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $82,148 in general payments to Patricia Bell, MD across 150 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 Patricia Bell, 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 Patricia Bell, 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.

Patricia Bell, MD

Otolaryngology · Harrison, ARNPI 1619910551

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $66,938 of the $82,148 with a category attached, or 81.5%. Stryker accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $35,309 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $50 in 2025. Among otolaryngology clinicians in AR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$82,148in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 150 payments — averaging $547.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$82K
GSK$147
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$99
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.$50
Kaleo, Inc.$45
Intersect ENT, Inc.$18
plus $67 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$66,93881%
Travel & lodging$12,16515%
Food & beverage$3,0454%

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
Stryker	127	$81,721
GSK	4	$147
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	7	$99
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	3	$50
Kaleo, Inc.	3	$45
Intersect ENT, Inc.	1	$18
USWM, LLC	1	$17
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$16
Merck	1	$12
Smith+Nephew	1	$12
Ambu Inc.	1	$10

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.

CLARIFIX CRYOTHERAPY DEVICE$44,400
XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$31,688
SCOPIS ENT$31,510
LATERA$27,911
TGS GUIDEWIRE$19,988
N/A$10,200
XPRESS LOPROFILE$8,051
ENTELLUS - XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$2,833
ORTHOMAP$2,500
SURPASS EVOLVE$750
ENTELLUS - FOCESS HD WIRELESS CAMERA$517
ENTELLUS - ENTELLUS MEDICAL SHAVER SYSTEM$517
SHAVER SYSTEM$500
TGS$369
SPIROX - LATERA$112
CLARIFIX$112
SURG - NEPTUNE$108

How this compares

$82,148 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 72 otolaryngology providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$119,122

Medicare patients

469

Services billed

2,845

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
Dupixent PenDupilumab	11	$40,686
Epinephrine	22	$4,148
Ipratropium Bromide	157	$3,478
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	18	$2,215
Fluticasone Propionate	109	$1,134
Montelukast Sodium	112	$607
Mometasone Furoate	32	$397
Azelastine Hcl	11	$297
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	16	$219
Amitriptyline Hcl	17	$89
Amoxicillin	19	$73
Prednisone	11	$73

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Harrison

Cory VaughnSpringdale$7K
Jeffrey KirschConway$6K
Patrick FraleyConway$5K
Sharon TomaskiEl Dorado$5K
Tyler BoneJonesboro$5K
Rafael MarreroConway$4K
Matthew BridgesRogers$4K
Michael MarshFort Smith$4K
Ozlem Tulunay UgurLittle Rock$3K
Kevin LollarSpringdale$3K

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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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