Samuel Bledsoe, MD
Surgery · Little Rock, ARNPI 1033367446
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $33,835 of the $52,665 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 63.5% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $15,579 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $876 in 2025. Among surgery 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.
Across 113 payments — averaging $466.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$33K
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Johnson & Johnson$4K
- Medtronic$392
- Davol Inc.$344
- Novo Nordisk$139
- plus $248 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$33,83564%
- Travel & lodging$1,2872%
- Food & beverage$4,9939%
- Education$12,50024%
- Entertainment$490%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 21 | $33,451 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $14,572 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 53 | $3,518 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $392 |
| Davol Inc. | 5 | $344 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $139 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Abbott | 2 | $49 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $27 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Echelon Flex$34,416
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$34,159
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,094
- Phasix Mesh$273
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$242
- ENSEAL Product Family$132
- LINX Reflux Management System$128
- Harmonic$125
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$125
- VISTASEAL$124
- HARMONIC Product Family$123
- EVICEL Fibrin Sealant (Human)$119
- Enseal$111
How this compares
$52,665 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 57 | $961 |
| Sucralfate | 28 | $663 |
| Omeprazole | 105 | $618 |
| Scopolamine | 39 | $575 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 42 | $295 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 14 | $177 |
| Gabapentin | 48 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Little Rock
- Michael PollockLittle Rock$45K
- James WalkerLittle Rock$41K
- Eric PaulLittle Rock$22K
- Peter KimLittle Rock$20K
- April TurnerLittle Rock$9K
- Raj PatelLittle Rock$8K
- Bobby PerryLittle Rock$7K
- Joshua RollerFayetteville$248K
- Alice CherquiJonesboro$71K
- Brian PottorfFayetteville$64K
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.