Ryan Banning, MD
Surgery · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1356845051
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $7,500 of the $9,928 with a category attached, or 75.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,268 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $210 in 2025.
Across 25 payments — averaging $397.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Medtronic$401
- Johnson & Johnson$266
- Virtual Incision Corporation$140
- Polynovo North America LLC$27
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$23
- plus $31 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,49015%
- Food & beverage$9389%
- Education$7,50076%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 8 | $9,040 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $401 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $266 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 1 | $140 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $27 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $23 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $18 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $13 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$7,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,471
- Endo Dissect$192
- LigaSure$157
- Mira!$140
How this compares
$9,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 68 | $158 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Fort Smith
- Christopher ColemanFort Smith$26K
- Jonathan FerrariFort Smith$20K
- Sarahrose WebsterFort Smith$11K
- Camille RichardsFort Smith$9K
- Darryl EckesFort Smith$8K
- Nabil AkkadFort Smith$8K
- Joshua RollerFayetteville$248K
- Alice CherquiJonesboro$71K
- Brian PottorfFayetteville$64K
- Samuel BledsoeLittle Rock$53K
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.