Has Edward Smith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $258,640 in general payments to Edward Smith, MD across 147 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, MD 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, MD 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, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Meridian, MSNPI 1497199020

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $238,750 of the $258,640 with a category attached, or 92.3%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C. at 51.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $151,144, more than ten times the $8,779 reported in 2019.

$258,640in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 147 payments — averaging $1759.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.$132K
Zavation Medical Products, LLC$82K
Surgentec$16K
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$14K
Spineart USA Inc$10K
Stryker$4K
plus $2K from 11 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$3,1771%
Consulting fees$238,75092%
Travel & lodging$9,3664%
Food & beverage$6,8193%
Education$3750%
Entertainment$1530%

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
Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.	7	$131,998
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	16	$82,165
Surgentec	4	$15,500
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	10	$13,632
Spineart USA Inc	38	$10,085
Stryker	52	$3,529
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$636
Republic Spine	3	$361
4web, Inc.	2	$196
Johnson & Johnson	2	$162
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$140
Abbott	3	$109
ALON Medical Technology	1	$39
Zimmer Biomet	2	$36
Vertex	1	$21
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$18
Augmedics Inc.	1	$14

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.

ALARA Access Needle$11,000
Graftgun Universal Graft Delivery System$11,000
ZAVATION$6,000
Hydroputty$2,000
Alara$2,000
TRITANIUM$1,257
ES2$1,112
AMISTEM$636
AERO$563
SERRATO$563
Scarlet AL-T$533
Perla TL$527
NONE$375
Dark Star$267
PERLA C$249
BIO4$247
XIA$134
CAPRI$127
PERLA TL - MIS$108

How this compares

Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Mississippito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$190,320

Medicare patients

369

Services billed

1,443

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
Daptomycin	12	$45,784
Gabapentin	679	$9,261
Pregabalin	95	$1,359
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	176	$1,138
Duloxetine Hcl	61	$1,132
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	66	$762
Amitriptyline Hcl	67	$686
Baclofen	20	$383
Promethazine Hcl	30	$286
Tizanidine Hcl	22	$270
Diclofenac Sodium	15	$193
Ibuprofen	11	$163
Methylprednisolone	12	$115
Meloxicam	13	$29

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Meridian

Justin HallColumbus$52K
Kenny EdwardsColumbus$41K
Graham CalvertJackson$23K
Robert McGuireJackson$7K
David VecchioneTupelo$7K
Dora PelletierJackson$3K
James BarrettJackson$3K
James AntinnesHattiesburg$2K
Kendall BlakeJackson$1K
Michael PattersonHattiesburg$274

See the full list for Mississippi →

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.

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