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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,384 in general payments to Claude Smith, MD across 169 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 Claude 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 Claude 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.

Claude Smith, MD

Psychiatry · Baltimore, MDNPI 1619929676

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,384in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 169 payments — averaging $43.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Neuronetics, Inc.$4K
Lundbeck LLC$544
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$441
AbbVie$395
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$376
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$334
plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,77851%
Education$50%
Other$3,60249%

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
Neuronetics, Inc.	2	$3,623
Lundbeck LLC	26	$544
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	23	$441
AbbVie(2 entities)	15	$395
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	18	$376
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	12	$334
Alkermes, Inc.	13	$311
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	11	$267
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	11	$227
Tris Pharma Inc	9	$160
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$142
Corium, LLC	6	$118
Johnson & Johnson	3	$98
Almatica Pharma LLC	3	$70
Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$56
Shire North American Group Inc	3	$49
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$41
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$31
OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$25
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$21
Neos Therapeutics, LP	1	$21
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$16

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

$7,384 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 851 psychiatry providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$169,578

Medicare patients

236

Services billed

1,226

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
Aripiprazole	16	$1,087
Lorazepam	26	$749
Clonazepam	48	$728
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl	20	$538
Cyproheptadine Hcl	11	$473
Duloxetine Hcl	12	$459
Diazepam	11	$288
Trazodone Hcl	17	$206
Escitalopram Oxalate	27	$200
Quetiapine Fumarate	11	$196
Lamotrigine	19	$145
Zolpidem Tartrate	14	$131
Lithium Carbonate	13	$95
Paroxetine Hcl	18	$85
Fluoxetine Hcl	11	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other psychiatry in Baltimore

Akira SawaBaltimore$5.1M
John VaethBaltimore$2.1M
Paul RosenbergBaltimore$1.9M
Scott AaronsonBaltimore$1.3M
Karen AndersonBaltimore$1.1M
Constantine LyketsosBaltimore$1.1M
Alan JonasBaltimore$1.1M
Sarah HertsBaltimore$1M
Robert LehmanBaltimore$947K
Marc FishmanBaltimore$822K

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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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