Surgical Critical Care in Arkansas
12 providers, $26,077 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 surgical critical care clinicians in Arkansas
Across 10 surgical critical care clinicians in Arkansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $533,582 in total — an average of $53,358 each, of which $53,358 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
- 1Matthew RobertsLittle Rock$8,411
- 2Nolan BruceLittle Rock$5,187
- 3Joseph MargolickLittle Rock$4,008
- 4Leigh RobinsonPine Bluff$3,111
- 5Esther TeoLittle Rock$1,647
- 6Irfan QureshiPine Bluff$1,632
- 7Melissa KostLittle Rock$1,222
- 8Richard YeagerLittle Rock$330
- 9Robert VandewalleLittle Rock$215
- 10Richard BetzoldLittle Rock$181
- 11Mary KimbroughLittle Rock$72
- 12Deidre WyrickLittle Rock$61