Edward Smith
Pediatrics · Durham, NCNPI 1881897361
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 568 payments — averaging $4862.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$1.3M
- Biogen$397K
- Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.$333K
- Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.$253K
- Novartis Gene Therapies, Inc. (fka Avexis, Inc.)$190K
- NS Pharma, Inc.$99K
- plus $153K from 12 others
Across 23 payments — averaging $1100.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$25K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$80,29349%
- Speaking & faculty fees$51,57031%
- Travel & lodging$14,4609%
- Food & beverage$5,6213%
- Education$12,3538%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 106 | $1,336,400 |
| Biogen | 37 | $397,368 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 8 | $333,014 |
| Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 186 | $252,959 |
| Novartis Gene Therapies, Inc. (fka Avexis, Inc.) | 99 | $189,636 |
| NS Pharma, Inc. | 31 | $99,155 |
| PTC Therapeutics, Inc. | 25 | $81,935 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 49 | $56,194 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $4,665 |
| GSK | 1 | $2,798 |
| Vertex | 5 | $2,272 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $2,243 |
| Eli Lilly | 2 | $1,125 |
| Novartis | 3 | $1,084 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 8 | $808 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $150 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $27 |
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
$2,761,963 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.
Other pediatrics in Durham
- Priya KishnaniDurham$20.3M
- Dwight KoeberlDurham$9.2M
- Emmanuel WalterDurham$8M
- Rasheed GbadegesinDurham$1M
- Consuelo RabinovichDurham$283K
- David VanmaterDurham$253K
- Michael FreemarkDurham$218K
- Daniel LandiDurham$202K
- Kathleen McGannDurham$201K
- Heather van MaterDurham$159K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.