Dantwan Smith
Cardiovascular Disease · Jackson, MSNPI 1659866895
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,924 of the $9,727 with a category attached, or 71.2%. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.5%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,215, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2019.
Across 173 payments — averaging $56.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Abbott$937
- Edwards Lifesciences$834
- Boehringer Ingelheim$534
- Inari Medical, Inc.$519
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,31624%
- Food & beverage$6,92471%
- Education$4885%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 20 | $1,800 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,738 |
| Abbott | 8 | $937 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 12 | $834 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 16 | $534 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $519 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $510 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $415 |
| Novartis | 18 | $326 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 4 | $308 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $300 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $257 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 8 | $224 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $178 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $128 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $118 |
| Merck | 3 | $100 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Bayer | 2 | $35 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 2 | $29 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $20 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vifor Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
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.
- WATCHMAN Access System$1,199
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$1,089
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$519
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$519
- Impella$365
- FARXIGA$350
- JARDIANCE$332
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$326
- Indigo System$265
- ENSITE$262
- XIENCE SKYPOINT$255
- EnSite Precision Cardiac Mapping System$225
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$208
- Barostim Neo System$146
- MitraClip$131
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$114
How this compares
$9,727 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 144 cardiovascular disease providers in Mississippi.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 12 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Jackson
- Donny StokesJackson$207K
- James BenslerJackson$64K
- Michael HallJackson$54K
- Tahsin QarqishJackson$39K
- Christopher LatourJackson$33K
- Varun SardarJackson$31K
- Olurotimi BaderoJackson$20K
- Michael PaymentJackson$16K
- James HaysJackson$16K
- Douglas HarkinsJackson$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.