NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Arkansas Medicare prescriber rankings

12,160 Arkansas prescribers billed $2.7 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 32nd largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 4.72 of every 100 of those claims (CMS), above the national 3.52.

CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers, 2024; CMS NPPES · method · Verify with CMS →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).
  • Prescribers12,160
  • Part D drug cost$2.7 billion
  • Average per prescriber$222,649
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)7,515 (61.83%)
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)4.72

Reading the Arkansas tables

Arkansas's 12,160 prescribers wrote 20,469,424 Part D claims in 2024, about $222,649 in drug cost per prescriber. A high total usually reflects specialty practice, such as cancer, rheumatology or HIV care. These are billing tables, not quality ratings. PlainDoctor does not rank named prescribers by opioid share; the state's opioid figures above come from CMS's own totals.

The 50 highest Part D drug-cost totals

Prescriber (NPPES taxonomy)Drug costClaims
1Muhammad WaqasAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$22.6 million7,382
2Balagopalan NairHematology & Oncology Physician$17.4 million5,441
3Kamal PatelHematology & Oncology Physician$15.5 million4,364
4Thomas SneedHematology & Oncology Physician$13.8 million4,937
5Maurizio ZangariHematology & Oncology Physician$12.3 million828
6Varant ArzoumanianHematology & Oncology Physician$10.3 million6,917
7Lawrence MendelsohnHematology & Oncology Physician$10.3 million4,497
8Stephen DiversHematology & Oncology Physician$10.1 million2,323
9Omer KhalilHematology & Oncology Physician$9.9 million7,945
10Ryan HallHematology & Oncology Physician$9.3 million3,846
11Patrick TravisHematology & Oncology Physician$9.3 million5,065
12Sukanthi KovvuruNeuromuscular Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician$9.2 million1,795
13Chitharanjan DuvoorEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$8.2 million13,589
14Mazen KhalilHematology & Oncology Physician$8.1 million2,227
15Frits Van RheeHematology & Oncology Physician$7.9 million928
16Ladly AbrahamPulmonary Disease Physician$7.5 million12,141
17Jasen ChiRheumatology Physician$7.4 million11,034
18Patrick CampbellAdvanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician$7.4 million6,023
19Brad BaltzHematology & Oncology Physician$6.9 million4,724
20Iris KennedyNurse Practitioner$6.9 million2,179
21Mariann HarringtonHematology & Oncology Physician$6.6 million3,383
22Roy SampsonRheumatology Physician$6.5 million3,939
23Maher AlesaliEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$6.4 million9,662
24Stephan RosenfeldHematology & Oncology Physician$6.4 million1,947
25Jason DailyEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$6.2 million11,143
26Kewen JaussHematology & Oncology Physician$5.9 million2,680
27Andrew BrigglerHematology & Oncology Physician$5.9 million2,692
28Isam Abdel-KarimHematology & Oncology Physician$5.9 million1,581
29Brian HughesGastroenterology Physician$5.9 million2,946
30Matthew LockwoodHematology & Oncology Physician$5.8 million3,148
31David KupermanHematology & Oncology Physician$5.7 million2,892
32Noha MohamedRheumatology Physician$5.7 million4,349
33Daniel MackeyHematology & Oncology Physician$5.7 million2,722
34Diane WilderHematology & Oncology Physician$5.7 million3,211
35Clay FergusonFamily Medicine Physician$5.6 million91,905
36Robert ArcherNeurology Physician$5.6 million5,895
37Steve-Felix BelingaNeurology Physician$5.5 million4,868
38Appalanaidu SasapuHematology & Oncology Physician$5.5 million1,535
39Sarah JewellHematology & Oncology Physician$5.2 million2,918
40Joseph BeckHematology & Oncology Physician$5.2 million1,992
41K'Anne ArthurHematology & Oncology Physician$5.2 million3,247
42Muthu KumaranMedical Oncology Physician$5.1 million992
43Scott DorrohHematology & Oncology Physician$5.1 million2,837
44Sue TsudaMedical Oncology Physician$5.1 million1,601
45Jamie BurtonHematology & Oncology Physician$5.0 million2,829
46Larry JohnsonPulmonary Disease Physician$5.0 million896
47Rhonda GentryHematology & Oncology Physician$4.9 million3,606
48Humdum DurraniHematology & Oncology Physician$4.8 million1,618
49Shunzhong BaoEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$4.7 million11,287
50James ThrasherEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$4.6 million11,230

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider, 2024 (data.cms.gov), matched to CMS NPPES by NPI; vaccine share from the prescriber's top drugs in the CMS by-provider-and-drug file. Specialty is the taxonomy the clinician reported to NPPES.

Common questions

How many Medicare prescribers are in Arkansas?

Arkansas has 12,160 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 20,469,424 claims totaling $2.7 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in Arkansas?

Opioids were 4.72 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Arkansas prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 7,515 of the state's 12,154 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (61.83%) wrote at least one opioid.

Checking a prescriber

Open the prescriber's record for the full NPI entry and prescribing detail, then confirm the license on the state board search. The Part D file covers Medicare Part D only; commercial, Medicaid, VA and cash prescriptions are not in it.

Prescriber rankings in other states

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. American Samoa
  4. Arizona
  5. Arkansas
  6. California
  7. Colorado
  8. Connecticut
  9. Delaware
  10. District of Columbia
  11. Florida
  12. Georgia
  13. Guam
  14. Hawaii
  15. Idaho
  16. Illinois
  17. Indiana
  18. Iowa
  19. Kansas
  20. Kentucky
  21. Louisiana
  22. Maine
  23. Maryland
  24. Massachusetts
  25. Michigan
  26. Minnesota
  27. Mississippi
  28. Missouri
  29. Montana
  30. Nebraska
  31. Nevada
  32. New Hampshire
  33. New Jersey
  34. New Mexico
  35. New York
  36. North Carolina
  37. North Dakota
  38. Northern Mariana Islands
  39. Ohio
  40. Oklahoma
  41. Oregon
  42. Pennsylvania
  43. Puerto Rico
  44. Rhode Island
  45. South Carolina
  46. South Dakota
  47. Tennessee
  48. Texas
  49. Utah
  50. Vermont
  51. Virgin Islands
  52. Virginia
  53. Washington
  54. West Virginia
  55. Wisconsin
  56. Wyoming

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Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Medicare Part D data year 2024 (CMS).