Deane Smith, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Evansville, INNPI 1255339180
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,109 of the $1,389 with a category attached, or 79.8%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $334 and has fallen 50.6% since, to $165 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for colon & rectal surgery clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $1,741.
Across 47 payments — averaging $29.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$201
- Medtronic$185
- Abbott$183
- Abiomed$139
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$104
- Palette Life Sciences, Inc.$81
- plus $496 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$796%
- Food & beverage$1,10980%
- Education$20114%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $201 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $185 |
| Abbott | 3 | $183 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $139 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $104 |
| Palette Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $64 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $55 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $20 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Verastem, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
| Stryker | 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.
How this compares
$1,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 54 colon & rectal surgery providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 17 | $10,113 |
| Diphenoxylate-AtropineDiphenoxylate Hcl/Atropine | 14 | $507 |
| Hydrocortisone | 26 | $347 |
| Sulfasalazine DrSulfasalazine | 11 | $272 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 31 | $216 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 44 | $172 |
| Metronidazole | 42 | $131 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Evansville
- Santiago ArruffatEvansville$14K
- Heather MathesonEvansville$13K
- Joseph AdongayEvansville$420
- James WallerEvansville$286
- Syam ChilukuriEvansville$104
- Shekar NarayananIndianapolis$67K
- Imran AhmadMunster$32K
- Edward Delle DonneSouth Bend$22K
- Joshua WalletFort Wayne$14K
- William OhMooresville$13K
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.