Has William Hefley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $306,298 in general payments to William Hefley, MD across 58 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 William Hefley, 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 William Hefley, 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.

William Hefley, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · North Little Rock, ARNPI 1437116787

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $281,319 of the $306,298 with a category attached, or 91.8%. Exactech, Inc. accounts for 98.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $65,828 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $31,281 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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.

$306,298in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $5281.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Exactech, Inc.$303K
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$2K
Zimmer Biomet$1K
Paragon 28, Inc.$229
Johnson & Johnson$133
Stryker$115
plus $131 from 2 others

$12,479in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $12,479 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.

Janssen Research & Development, LLC$12K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$281,31992%
Consulting fees$17,5956%
Travel & lodging$3,2411%
Food & beverage$1,4810%
Education$2,6611%

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
Exactech, Inc.	43	$302,727
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.	1	$1,690
Zimmer Biomet	7	$1,274
Paragon 28, Inc.	2	$229
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$133
Stryker	1	$115
Conformis, Inc.	1	$104
Amgen	1	$27

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

$306,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 168 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$484,613

Medicare patients

693

Services billed

3,766

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
Diclofenac Sodium	347	$3,059
Oxycodone Hcl	303	$1,549
Doxycycline Hyclate	103	$733
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	67	$552
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	187	$492
Ondansetron Hcl	82	$455
Meloxicam	91	$272
Celecoxib	14	$160
Prednisone	11	$132
Tramadol Hcl	59	$129
Amoxicillin	62	$71
Diazepam	21	$17

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in North Little Rock

Larry NguyenNorth Little Rock$18K
Benjamin StronachLittle Rock$2.5M
Charles BarnesLittle Rock$2.1M
Kenneth MartinLittle Rock$322K
Wesley CoxFayetteville$309K
David BumpassLittle Rock$175K
Lawrence O'MalleyLittle Rock$151K
Jason BrandtJonesboro$104K
Jason SmithLittle Rock$102K
Richard McCarthyLittle Rock$75K

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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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