Charles Smith
Family Medicine · le Claire, IANPI 1861498669
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 125 payments — averaging $18.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$396
- AbbVie$346
- AstraZeneca$333
- Boehringer Ingelheim$201
- Pfizer$166
- GSK$140
- plus $671 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,15496%
- Education$1004%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 16 | $396 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $346 |
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $333 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $201 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $166 |
| GSK | 10 | $140 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $131 |
| Amgen | 9 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $62 |
| Merck | 4 | $56 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $53 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Novartis | 2 | $26 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 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.
How this compares
$2,254 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,357 family medicine providers in Iowa.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 12 | $225 |
| Famotidine | 12 | $103 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 13 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in le Claire
- Nicholas GoetschWaterloo$4.1M
- James PoockWaterloo$1.5M
- Jennifer KayCouncil Bluffs$613K
- Nicholas BechtoldSioux City$584K
- Kirk PetersonHuxley$576K
- Stephen HarrisonClinton$249K
- Sharon SteenBelle Plaine$241K
- Carlos Alarcon SchroderJohnston$237K
- Thomas RossDes Moines$170K
- Yogesh ShahDes Moines$159K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.