Question 1

Has Deborah Smith received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,919 in general payments to Deborah Smith across 673 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Deborah Smith did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 3

Where does this information about Deborah Smith come from?

Accepted Answer

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.

Company	Payments	Total
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	114	$3,186
Exelixis Inc.	14	$1,497
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	56	$1,434
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	45	$1,398
Novartis	57	$1,071
Merck	47	$995
Genentech USA, Inc.	36	$935
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	16	$592
Eisai Inc.	21	$552
Amgen	14	$344
Sanofi	18	$316
Bayer	12	$277
AbbVie	13	$276
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	3	$272
Beigene USA, Inc.	8	$245
Lilly USA, LLC	8	$230
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	10	$228
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	8	$216
Astellas Pharma US Inc	6	$215
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	10	$214
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	7	$212
Bristol Myers Squibb	12	$194
Incyte Corporation	10	$190
G1 Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$184
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$149
Pfizer	9	$146
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$137
Seagen Inc.	4	$134
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	6	$131
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$120
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	6	$102
Novocure Inc.	1	$101
Springworks Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$101
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	5	$86
GSK	5	$86
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$76
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$76
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	1	$74
Geron Corporation	3	$73
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	4	$71
Morphosys, US Inc.	5	$70
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	3	$67
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$56
CTI Biopharma Corp.	3	$56
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	3	$55
Array Biopharma Inc	4	$54
Gilead	3	$50
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$48
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	2	$48
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	2	$35
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$34
Epizyme, Inc.	2	$33
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$32
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$32
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	2	$31
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$29
Emmaus Medical, Inc.	1	$26
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$24
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$22
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20

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