Kathleen Toon

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Mercy Hospital Booneville Hospital · Booneville, AR
• Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Hospital · Fort Smith, AR
• Mercy Hospital Ozark Hospital · Ozark, AR
• Mercy Hospital Paris Hospital · Paris, AR

Colleagues at Mercy Clinic Fort Smith Communities

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 350 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Rubina Naheed Baig, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Dr. James Robert Barber III, MD Obstetrics Physician · North Little Rock, AR
• Dr. Thomas E Cheyne, MD Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Mrs. Shawna Denise Crowson, APRN Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Waldron, AR
• Anna Kathryn Dockery, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Mrs. Carla Ladynn Hill, APRN Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Dr. Fareed Kannout, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Daniel Brian Maechler Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Mrs. Demi Delise Merlino, APRN, MNSC Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Andrew Bradley Starnes, MD, MPH Emergency Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Karen Elaine Thrift, ANP Family Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Tessa Quyen Tran, FNP Registered Nurse · Fort Smith, AR

Other providers in Fort Smith

• Kirsten Rachel Boyd, BSNRN

  Individual Oncology Registered Nurse · NPI 1780555086

  7301 Rogers Ave, Fort Smith, AR 72903-4100 · (479) 314-6055