Optometrist in Arkansas
442 providers, $633,022 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $537.
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 optometrist clinicians in Arkansas
Across 354 optometrist clinicians in Arkansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $18,299,038 in total — an average of $51,692 each, of which $51,692 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
- 1Christen CoatsFayetteville$216,467
- 2Christopher MorrisRogers$6,439
- 3Russell SimmonsBenton$6,349
- 4Andrea HorneTontitown$6,028
- 5Shelby BrogdonLittle Rock$5,436
- 6Ryan BunchRogers$5,226
- 7Alex BellRogers$4,564
- 8Melissa PolkEl Dorado$4,546
- 9Kristin LawSherwood$4,524
- 10Andrew HickmanRussellville$4,136
- 11Vanessa WallJonesboro$3,958
- 12Jacob MollLake City$3,939
- 13Megan MollJonesboro$3,762
- 14Marcus LawSherwood$3,689
- 15Eric RobbinsConway$3,685
- 16Stephanie WillettPine Bluff$3,564
- 17Shane LasterFort Smith$3,501
- 18Jami VealParagould$3,458
- 19Michael McFarlandFayetteville$3,419
- 20Derrick PierceBentonville$3,412
- 21Christina ThompsonRogers$3,289
- 22Annie AvilezFayetteville$3,264
- 23Tiffany MooneyNorth Little Rock$3,223
- 24Jamie JohnsonLittle Rock$3,170
- 25James GrayJonesboro$3,073
- 26Belinda StarkeyRogers$3,015
- 27Kory AllenRogers$2,954
- 28William WootenLittle Rock$2,941
- 29Benjamin LynchFayetteville$2,919
- 30Bart JonesJonesboro$2,903
- 31Stephanie MossRogers$2,792
- 32Kylie HilliardParagould$2,730
- 33Shane FordConway$2,701
- 34Matthew JonesBlytheville$2,621
- 35Jennifer DillardBentonville$2,612
- 36Rick MeadorNorth Little Rock$2,606
- 37Jennifer ButtonBlytheville$2,578
- 38Pete ParentiRogers$2,525
- 39Roger NealNorth Little Rock$2,505
- 40James HertzogCabot$2,499
- 41David HurdEureka Springs$2,414
- 42Shalynn ShawLittle Rock$2,349
- 43Sarah LunsfordHensley$2,344
- 44Kaitlin SpikesFayetteville$2,335
- 45Savannah HuckabyArkadelphia$2,307
- 46Todd HookBentonville$2,306
- 47Taylor RenzSearcy$2,228
- 48Kamri BestJonesboro$2,226
- 49Megan Provence-PerrySpringdale$2,145
- 50Megan BaureisFayetteville$2,144
- 51Malcolm HutchinsFort Smith$2,134
- 52Caitlyn DeclueLittle Rock$2,123
- 53Brittany BoyetteSherwood$2,114
- 54Bobby DeckerBentonville$2,094
- 55Seth LasterFort Smith$2,091
- 56Graham HoltHot Springs$2,070
- 57Elissa BostianSpringdale$2,057
- 58Trent DaiberBentonville$2,053
- 59Jennifer StaffordFayetteville$2,035
- 60Mason SeelingerPine Bluff$2,016