Has David Smolar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,043 in general payments to David Smolar, MD across 36 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 David Smolar, 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 David Smolar, 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.

David Smolar, MD

Neurological Surgery · Hollywood, FLNPI 1275997801

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,043in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $251.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc$7K
Medtronic$1K
Surgical Theater. Inc.$236
Innovation Technologies Inc$189
Stryker$188
Globus Medical$160
plus $419 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$5,25058%
Travel & lodging$7068%
Food & beverage$3,06734%
Education$200%

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
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	12	$6,681
Medtronic	13	$1,171
Surgical Theater. Inc.	1	$236
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$189
Stryker	2	$188
Globus Medical	1	$160
Abbott	1	$150
Boston Scientific	1	$118
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$113
CSL Behring	1	$20
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$17

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

$9,043 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 556 neurological surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$110,020

Medicare patients

143

Services billed

317

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
Gabapentin	34	$347

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurological surgery in Hollywood

Stephen ParkerJacksonville$18.7M
Ira GoodmanOrlando$10.4M
Eric PetersonMiami$10.1M
Brian SnellingBoca Raton$10M
Kim ManwaringOrlando$5M
Ricardo HanelJacksonville$3.8M
Brian HohGainesville$3.7M
Paul SawinWinter Park$3M
John MainOcala$2.8M
Michael WangMiami$2.5M

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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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