Corey Smith
Internal Medicine · Augusta, GANPI 1104440635
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,751 of the $4,001 with a category attached, or 68.8%. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Moximed, Inc at 31.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,674, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2021.
Across 77 payments — averaging $51.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Moximed, Inc$1K
- Medtronic$500
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$286
- Cvrx, Inc.$286
- Abbott$282
- Boston Scientific$257
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,25031%
- Food & beverage$2,75169%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moximed, Inc | 2 | $1,250 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $500 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $286 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $286 |
| Abbott | 13 | $282 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $257 |
| Stryker | 8 | $231 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $126 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Novartis | 4 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $71 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $59 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $51 |
| Recor Medical Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $31 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $21 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $19 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Cleerly, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $12 |
| Cequr Corporation | 1 | $8 |
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.
- MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$1,250
- Barostim Neo System$229
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$151
- SHOCKWAVE INTRAVASCULAR LITHOTRIPSY (IVL) SYSTEM WITH THE SHOCKWAVE C2+ CORONARY$136
- FlowTriever$127
- AZURE XT DR MRI SURESCAN$127
- WATCHMAN FLX$115
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$106
- Indigo System$101
How this compares
$4,001 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 22 | $19,865 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 12 | $6,976 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 23 | $412 |
| Carvedilol | 20 | $123 |
| Spironolactone | 12 | $73 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Augusta
- Oladapo FawibeAugusta$79K
- Twinkle SinghAugusta$23K
- Kayla ShahbazianAugusta$21K
- Koosh DesaiAugusta$19K
- Sheng WangAugusta$19K
- Eman KaldasAugusta$18K
- Michael GibsonSmyrna$2.2M
- Eduard FatakhovAlpharetta$376K
- Tracey HenryAtlanta$305K
- Sharon TuckettVilla Rica$265K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.