Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine in Arkansas
9 providers, $1,098,695 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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Arkansas
Across 5 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Arkansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,192,463 in total — an average of $238,493 each, of which $237,910 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
- 1Jared SealeLittle Rock$1,032,479
- 2Gannon RandolphBentonville$38,953
- 3Mark FegerConway$13,473
- 4Patrick ChanSearcy$8,209
- 5Wayne BruffettNorth Little Rock$3,826
- 6Richard PeekLittle Rock$955
- 7Edward SaerLittle Rock$364
- 8Travis RichardsonParagould$263
- 9David ArnoldConway$174