Obstetrics in Arkansas
12 providers, $32,137 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays obstetrics clinicians in Arkansas
Across 6 obstetrics clinicians in Arkansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $58,009 in total — an average of $9,668 each, of which $9,668 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Mark BallardParagould$19,819
- 2Julian TerryFayetteville$6,159
- 3Natalie EilandSiloam Springs$2,302
- 4Mark StriplingJonesboro$1,470
- 5Dawn PhelpsHarrison$1,080
- 6Stacy PollackBatesville$848
- 7Tyler LloydJohnson$213
- 8Renee Peldun McGrawLittle Rock$100
- 9Taylor GhahremaniLittle Rock$84
- 10Robert YoungLittle Rock$33
- 11Jason KnottBatesville$15
- 12James StuddardLittle Rock$14