Christopher Smith
Sports Medicine · Los Angeles, CANPI 1881199909
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $191.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$10K
- AbbVie$261
- Pfizer$169
- GSK$125
- Exact Sciences$93
- Lilly USA, LLC$83
- plus $368 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$10,00090%
- Food & beverage$1,10010%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 1 | $10,000 |
| AbbVie | 19 | $261 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $169 |
| GSK | 5 | $125 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $93 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $83 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $82 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| Amgen | 3 | $78 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Myriad Women's Health, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$11,100 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 662 sports medicine providers in California.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalexin | 12 | $91 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $90 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 15 | $56 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 17 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Los Angeles
- Neal ElattracheLos Angeles$51M
- Carleton VangsnessLos Angeles$872K
- Kristofer JonesLos Angeles$605K
- Michael BanffyLos Angeles$578K
- Seth GamradtLos Angeles$567K
- Reza OmidLos Angeles$400K
- Orr LimpisvastiLos Angeles$335K
- George HatchLos Angeles$255K
- David McAllisterLos Angeles$186K
- Stephen LiuLos Angeles$169K
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.