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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,077 in general payments to Damien Smith, MD across 12 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 Damien 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 Damien 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.

Damien Smith, MD

Urology · Santa Cruz, CANPI 1063603108

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,077in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $89.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$861
Procept Biorobotics Corporation$139
SRS Medical Systems, Inc.$54
Coloplast$23

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$21320%
Food & beverage$86380%

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
Boston Scientific	7	$861
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	3	$139
SRS Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$54
Coloplast	1	$23

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

$1,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,324 urology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$476,253

Medicare patients

784

Services billed

19,170

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron	87	$55,319
OrgovyxRelugolix	13	$35,499
Tamsulosin Hcl	454	$7,861
Testosterone	34	$6,845
Desmopressin Acetate	24	$3,546
Finasteride	214	$3,448
ToviazFesoterodine Fumarate	13	$3,345
Trospium Chloride	55	$2,996
Dutasteride	41	$1,611
Solifenacin Succinate	29	$1,295
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride	26	$889
Megestrol Acetate	13	$570
Alfuzosin Hcl ErAlfuzosin Hcl	32	$552
Testosterone Cypionate	14	$315
Bicalutamide	12	$171

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other urology in Santa Cruz

Edward UchioOrange$21.1M
Stephen FreedlandWest Hollywood$16.7M
Alec KooTorrance$7.4M
Karim ChamieLos Angeles$4.3M
Ralph ClaymanOrange$3.9M
Siamak DaneshmandLos Angeles$3.5M
Arnold ChinLos Angeles$3.5M
Roger LiLoma Linda$2.3M
John KowalczykLos Angeles$1.8M
Arie BelldegrunLos Angeles$1.8M

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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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