Vicky Whelchel, APRN
Adult Health · Jonesboro, ARNPI 1528476744
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 25 payments — averaging $22.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baudax Bio Inc.$89
- Organogenesis Inc.$59
- Baxter Healthcare$53
- Vertex$47
- Innovation Technologies Inc$32
- Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited$31
- plus $242 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$555100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $59 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $53 |
| Vertex | 2 | $47 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $31 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Merck | 1 | $23 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $19 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 154 adult health 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 75 | $176 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $40 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other adult health in Jonesboro
- Deborah ShipmanJonesboro$41K
- Lisa HurdJonesboro$12K
- Angela PugsleyJonesboro$4K
- Billie Barnes-WillsJonesboro$4K
- Kyle MedlinJonesboro$4K
- Margaret CooperJonesboro$3K
- Jana WheatonJonesboro$3K
- Samuel HiserJonesboro$2K
- Sara KoppJonesboro$2K
- Ashley HouseJonesboro$2K
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.