Dean Smith, MD
Hand Surgery · Bellaire, TXNPI 1750384749
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $132.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medartis Inc.$2K
- Globus Medical$613
- Axogen$424
- Acumed LLC$302
- Trice Medical, Inc.$250
- Arthrosurface Incorporated$225
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,71031%
- Food & beverage$3,60466%
- Education$1242%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medartis Inc. | 7 | $2,384 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $613 |
| Axogen | 3 | $424 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $302 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Arthrosurface Incorporated | 3 | $225 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 2 | $190 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $168 |
| Bone Support Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $149 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Trimed, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Stryker | 1 | $66 |
| Medinc Of Texas | 2 | $54 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $43 |
| Amgen | 3 | $41 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals 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.
- APTUS$2,297
- Kerecis SurgiClose$595
- ACUMED$267
- Segway blade or mieye camera$250
- Distal Radius Plate$234
- VersaWrap$168
- CERAMENTBONE VOID FILLER$151
- CERAMENT G$151
- Kerecis GraftGuide$149
- OVOMotion$147
- RevoMotion$147
- WristMotion Wrist Hemiarthroplasty System$147
- Anthem$144
- CAPTIVATE$144
- INnate Implant$142
- Stimulan$137
- Mini Fragment System$136
- Distal Radius II$136
- Headless Compression Screw$136
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$131
How this compares
$5,437 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 170 hand surgery providers in Texas.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 46 | $366 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 27 | $127 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $76 |
| Meloxicam | 17 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Bellaire
- Brendan MackayLubbock$547K
- David RingAustin$536K
- John FaillaceWoodway$434K
- Kourosh JafarniaHouston$278K
- Timothy NiacarisArlington$239K
- Daniel KoehlerDallas$208K
- Steven NiedermeierArlington$169K
- William PientkaFort Worth$168K
- Ann GoldenDallas$107K
- Cameron AtkinsonArlington$103K
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.