Sara Kopp
Adult Health · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1285158436
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,284 of the $1,973 with a category attached, or 65.1%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 47.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,013 and has fallen 69.0% since, to $314 in 2025.
Across 50 payments — averaging $39.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$938
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$199
- Merck$117
- Vertex$96
- Organogenesis Inc.$59
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$58
- plus $506 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$59130%
- Food & beverage$1,28465%
- Education$985%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 10 | $938 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $199 |
| Merck | 6 | $117 |
| Vertex | 4 | $96 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 4 | $58 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $56 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $53 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $53 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $36 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Bioptics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
How this compares
$1,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 154 adult health providers in Arkansas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $236 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 15 | $32 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Samuel HiserJonesboro$2K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.