Sarah Edwards, APRN

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 Fort Smith Hospital · Fort Smith, AR
• Mercy Hospital Ozark Hospital · Ozark, 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. Melissa Kay Albers, MD Family Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Bennett, APRN Family Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Dr. Rafay S Cheema, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Fort Smith, AR
• Mr. Andrew Marcus Dugan, AGACNP-BC Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Dr. Jerad Dane Eldred, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Moriah Christine Hayes, APRN-CNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Booneville, AR
• Jeanmarie Householder, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Jason Johnson, AUD Audiologist · Fort Smith, AR
• Iram Qureshi Family Medicine Physician · Fort Smith, AR
• Clyde McClellan Stauffer, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Fort Smith, AR
• Ashley Nicole Tucker Family Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR
• Laura Michelle Turner, NP Nurse Practitioner · Fort Smith, AR

Other providers in Ozark

• Cortina Rae Pierce

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1821678269

  201 S 7th St, Ozark, AR 72949-3131 · (479) 667-1590

• Sarah Lynn Vermillion, RN

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1467309328

  7941 Windsong Rd, Ozark, AR 72949-8354 · (814) 673-8055