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Arion Smalley, MD

Pain Medicine · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1518259597

Payments from drug & device makers

$22,386in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 703 payments — averaging $31.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$9K
  • Abbott$2K
  • Nalu Medical, Inc.$2K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$973
  • AbbVie$967
  • plus $6K from 40 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$4,32919%
  • Food & beverage$18,03781%
  • Education$200%
  • Gifts$00%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$22,386 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 112 pain medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$227,579
Medicare patients
282
Services billed
3,401

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl74$52,436
Buprenorphine86$26,044
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen724$19,957
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl18$16,141
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen622$12,382
Gabapentin780$10,891
Xtampza ErOxycodone Myristate22$7,783
SavellaMilnacipran Hcl13$7,770
Pregabalin387$6,127
ButransBuprenorphine12$5,817
Oxycodone Hcl297$4,857
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate135$2,713
Baclofen277$2,477
Tizanidine Hcl231$2,387
Duloxetine Hcl147$2,126

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.Belbuca, Nucynta, Xtampza Er$352$76,360114 claims
AbbVieSavella$967$7,77013 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 112 pain medicine providers in Tennessee.

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