Has Austin Smith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,260 in general payments to Austin Smith, MD across 142 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Austin Smith, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Austin Smith, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Austin Smith, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Gilbert, AZNPI 1902338973

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $26,100 of the $42,260 with a category attached, or 61.8%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 61.5% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $29,692, more than ten times the $131 reported in 2020.

$42,260in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 142 payments — averaging $297.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medacta USA, Inc.$26K
Stryker$7K
Zimmer Biomet$3K
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$3K
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc$1K
Linvatec Corporation$531
plus $2K from 15 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$26,10062%
Travel & lodging$7,58818%
Food & beverage$8,57220%

General payments by program year

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Medacta USA, Inc.	20	$25,998
Stryker	60	$6,971
Zimmer Biomet	20	$3,056
Shoulder Innovations, Inc.	5	$2,559
FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc	2	$1,342
Linvatec Corporation	6	$531
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	8	$376
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$217
Catalyst Orthoscience	1	$193
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$184
Impactortho, Inc.	2	$170
Abbott	1	$137
Ossio Inc	1	$137
Medtronic	1	$131
Dunamis Medical, LLC	2	$91
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$44
Smith+Nephew	1	$39
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$35
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$20
Biowound Solutions, Inc.	1	$17
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$13

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.

PRIMARY SHOULDER$23,059
BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$3,433
InSet System$2,500
QUADRA$2,100
Avenir$1,567
AEQUALIS PERFORM$1,017
Persona$862
REUNION$773
REVERSE SHOULDER$405
LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$351
LIVATEC KNEE PRESERVATION SYSTEM$351
AEQUALIS FLEX REVIVE$347
AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$322
Comprehensive Shoulder System$224
Catalyst CSR Shoulder System$193
NANOTACK FLEX$189
SALVATION$189
VARIAX$163
AXSOS$163
RevoMotion$158

How this compares

$42,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 377 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$273,207

Medicare patients

373

Services billed

2,748

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Celecoxib	129	$1,709
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	119	$1,160
Oxycodone Hcl	134	$901
Tramadol Hcl	139	$510
Methylprednisolone	46	$243
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	23	$171
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	11	$114
Meloxicam	30	$110
Amoxicillin	14	$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Gilbert

Braiden HeapsGilbert$96K
Mario TaylorGilbert$93K
Kipling SharpeGilbert$88K
William PatersonGilbert$68K
Evan LedermanPhoenix$12M
James ChowPhoenix$6.1M
Michael McKeePhoenix$3.4M
Henry ClarkePhoenix$1.9M
Mark CampbellSun City West$788K
Samuel HarmsenPhoenix$735K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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