Christopher Smith
Physician Assistant · Pensacola, FLNPI 1538255476
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $54,350 of the $82,360 with a category attached, or 66.0%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Gilead at 29.6% of the total. Among physician assistant clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 372 payments — averaging $221.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$24K
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$18K
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$14K
- AbbVie$13K
- Evoke Pharma, Inc.$6K
- Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$4K
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,4104%
- Speaking & faculty fees$54,35066%
- Travel & lodging$15,08918%
- Food & beverage$9,51112%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 87 | $24,375 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 45 | $18,451 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 36 | $14,430 |
| AbbVie | 79 | $13,115 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $6,268 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 19 | $3,510 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 20 | $397 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $279 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 14 | $247 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $237 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $131 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 6 | $122 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $120 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $108 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Merck | 4 | $66 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 5 | $65 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $43 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $14 |
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.
- VOQUEZNA$15,141
- Epclusa$14,074
- REZDIFFRA$13,335
- Mavyret$11,254
- GIMOTI$6,026
- OCALIVA$3,261
- VOQUEZNA TRIPLE PAK$1,680
- VOQUEZNA DUAL PAK$1,680
- BRILINTA$120
- Skyrizi$105
- CellerateRx$102
How this compares
$82,360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,062 physician assistant providers in Florida.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 25 | $583 |
| Omeprazole | 23 | $575 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Pensacola
- Audrey BeckerSt Augustine$689K
- Kevin WilliamsTampa$647K
- Brian BonomoLecanto$559K
- Melissa SingletonOcala$482K
- Reeli ReinuMaitland$427K
- Jeanelle KingMiami$424K
- Risha BellomoOrlando$397K
- Jason BergerClearwater$344K
- Ashley MillerGainesville$328K
- Nicole HillOrlando$319K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.