Has Edward Smith received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $164,297 in general payments to Edward Smith across 245 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 Edward Smith 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 Edward Smith 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.

Edward Smith

Pediatrics · Durham, NCNPI 1881897361

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.9%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 34.2% of the total. Among pediatrics clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$164,297in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 245 payments — averaging $670.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$56K
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.$45K
Novartis Gene Therapies, Inc. (fka Avexis, Inc.)$20K
Pfizer$15K
Biogen$14K
Genentech USA, Inc.$5K
plus $9K from 10 others

$2,622,966in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 346 payments — averaging $7580.83 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$1.3M
Biogen$383K
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.$333K
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.$208K
Novartis Gene Therapies, Inc. (fka Avexis, Inc.)$169K
NS Pharma, Inc.$97K
plus $86K from 3 others

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
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	49	$56,194
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.	59	$44,772
Novartis Gene Therapies, Inc. (fka Avexis, Inc.)	60	$20,397
Pfizer	18	$15,362
Biogen	32	$14,112
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$4,665
Vertex	5	$2,272
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$2,243
NS Pharma, Inc.	2	$1,876
Eli Lilly	2	$1,125
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	8	$808
AstraZeneca	1	$150
Novartis	1	$137
Genentech, Inc.	2	$131
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$27
Ultragenyx 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.

AGAMREE$49,116
ZOLGENSMA$19,987
SPINRAZA$13,063
Exondys 51$6,379
EVRYSDI$4,665
VILTEPSO$1,326
QALSODY$222
Skyclarys$222
SOLIRIS$150
FIRDAPSE$120

How this compares

$164,297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.

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Other pediatrics in Durham

Dwight KoeberlDurham$8.4M
Priya KishnaniDurham$5.8M
Daniel LandiDurham$70K
Rasheed GbadegesinDurham$50K
Mohamad MikatiDurham$35K
David VanmaterDurham$32K
Stephanie DearmeyDurham$30K
Emmanuel WalterDurham$15K
William MalcolmDurham$14K
Charlene WongDurham$11K

See the full list for North Carolina →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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