Cody Tompkins is the founder and lead provider of Ozark Men's Health. A board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with full practice authority in Arkansas, he was born and raised in Hot Springs and returned home to Northwest Arkansas after years of practicing in California and Arizona.
In more than a decade in healthcare, Cody has worked across a wide range of hospital medicine. At UCLA he practiced as a registered nurse in emergency medicine and hematology/oncology, and on the resource float pool covering two hospitals — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica — across more than 40 inpatient units. He also worked in the emergency department at Banner Boswell Medical Center in the Phoenix area.
Most recently he spent four and a half years as a nurse practitioner in internal medicine at Mercy in Rogers, caring for adults with complex, overlapping conditions — diabetes, hypertension, obesity and cardiovascular disease, often in the same patient.
That experience is the foundation of this practice. Ozark Men's Health was built to give men the time, attention and continuity their health deserves, with one clinician who knows their history and follows it over time.
Credentials
- Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC)
- Full independent practice authority, State of Arkansas
- Master of Science in Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner — United States University
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, University of Arkansas, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing
- Minor in General Business, University of Arkansas, Sam Walton College of Business
- More than a decade in healthcare, including four and a half years as a nurse practitioner in internal medicine
- Additional education and training in men's health and hormone management, including the Sexual Medicine Society of North America's men's health course
- NPI 1396499737 · Arkansas-licensed · carries professional liability insurance
- Ozark Men's Health is LegitScript certified · verify on LegitScript.com
Full Practice Authority
Many people assume a nurse practitioner has to work under a physician's supervision. In Arkansas, that is not required of nurse practitioners who hold full independent practice authority — and that authority is earned, not automatic.
Under Act 412 of 2021, an Arkansas nurse practitioner must first complete 6,240 hours of clinical practice under a collaborative agreement with a physician, roughly three years of full-time practice. The application then goes to the Full Independent Practice Credentialing Committee, an eight-member committee appointed by the Governor, and must include a notarized affidavit of those hours signed by the collaborating physician, two professional recommendations, and recent continuing education in advanced pharmacology. The certificate must be renewed every three years.
Cody holds that certificate. He evaluates, diagnoses, orders and interprets laboratory testing, and prescribes independently, with no physician co-signing his decisions. The clinician who examines you is the same one who makes decisions about your care and reviews every result.
How Cody Practices
The question is why, not just what. A low testosterone result is a finding, not a diagnosis. It has causes, and some of them matter more than the number itself. The evaluation is built to find them rather than to confirm a result you arrived already expecting.
Metabolic health is the substrate underneath everything else. Insulin resistance shows up in the bloodwork years before glucose moves, and it drives a great deal of what men come in complaining about — the fatigue, the visceral fat that will not respond to effort, the libido, the trajectory toward diabetes that nobody named while it was still reversible. Fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and body composition are part of the standard workup here, not an upgrade.
Cardiovascular risk gets measured properly. A standard lipid panel is a blunt instrument. ApoB counts the particles that actually deposit in an arterial wall; Lp(a) is largely genetic, is never checked in most men's lifetimes, and changes how aggressively everything else should be managed; hsCRP describes the inflammatory environment those particles are operating in. These are ordered because cardiovascular disease is what is most likely to kill the men in this practice, and because a therapy that touches hematocrit and blood pressure deserves a clear-eyed baseline.
Medication is one tool, deployed deliberately. Sleep, resistance training, protein intake, and alcohol move these markers, sometimes more than a prescription does. When medication is indicated it is prescribed and monitored properly; when it is not, saying so is part of the job. All treatment requires a medical evaluation with a licensed clinician, and any medication is prescribed only when clinically appropriate and dispensed by a licensed pharmacy. Completing an evaluation does not guarantee that a prescription will be written.
Outside the Exam Room
Cody's work is guided by his Christian faith and a straightforward conviction that men function better for the people who depend on them when their own health is not an afterthought. Most patients here are somewhere in the middle of it — a career, a marriage, children, aging parents — and have spent a decade putting themselves last. The practice is built for that man.
Where He Sees Patients
In person on Mondays and Wednesdays, 8 AM to 6 PM, and the first Saturday of each month, 8 AM to noon, at The Ledger, 240 S Main Street in downtown Bentonville. Virtual visits are Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8 AM to 6 PM, for patients located in Arkansas.
The first step is a short conversation, not a commitment. Get in touch and Cody will tell you honestly whether this practice is the right fit.
Last updated: September 30, 2026