Has Paul Edwards, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $158,015 in general payments to Paul Edwards, MD across 169 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 Paul Edwards, 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 Paul Edwards, 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.

Paul Edwards, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1235289596

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (34.2%), royalties or licence payments and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 56.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $61,794, 2.9 times the $21,559 reported in 2019.

$158,015in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $935.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimmer Biomet$90K
Encore Medical, LP$65K
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
Paragon 28, Inc.$229
Stryker$204
Exactech, Inc.$132
plus $355 from 5 others

$327,550in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $7444.32 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.

Zimmer Biomet$328K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$53,20434%
Consulting fees$28,62518%
Travel & lodging$16,81711%
Food & beverage$5,3773%
Education$53,99234%

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
Zimmer Biomet	119	$89,867
Encore Medical, LP	36	$65,106
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$2,122
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$229
Stryker	4	$204
Exactech, Inc.	1	$132
Johnson & Johnson	1	$117
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$107
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.	1	$99
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$26
Kinex Medical Company LLC	1	$6

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.

DJO SURGICAL$50,130
Arcos$32,500
G7$27,500
Avenir$27,500
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Hip$22,790
Persona$20,704
DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$10,601
DJO Surgical AltiVate Reverse$6,089
Avitus Bone Harvester$5,375
Synovasure Alpha Defensin$4,750
DJO Surgical FMP Acetabular System$3,000
HTX-011$2,122
Affixus$1,574
Oxford$1,194
DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$679
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$248
Comprehensive Shoulder System$233
ROSA$148
OPTETRAK$132
Product Portfolio$124

How this compares

Too few adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in Arkansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$521,009

Medicare patients

578

Services billed

3,547

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
EliquisApixaban	70	$40,196
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	469	$4,350
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	206	$3,198
Doxycycline Hyclate	105	$2,999
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	332	$2,852
Cefadroxil	241	$1,576
Ondansetron Hcl	170	$1,414
Naloxone Hcl	18	$1,130
Celecoxib	78	$891
Gabapentin	50	$632
Cephalexin	24	$506
Tramadol Hcl	98	$364
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	38	$303
Oxycodone Hcl	27	$191
Diclofenac Sodium	13	$182

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in Little Rock

David CollinsLittle Rock$2.4M
Samuel BaxterLittle Rock$11K
David NewbernLittle Rock$3K
Adam NorwoodLittle Rock$1K
Adam SmithLittle Rock$751
Michael HusseyLittle Rock$436
Charles HanbyFayetteville$81K
Jonathan CreechFayetteville$35K
Jon BanwartBentonville$5K
Russell RaulsMountain Home$618

See the full list for Arkansas →

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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