Has Elizabeth Smith received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,800 in general payments to Elizabeth Smith across 241 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 Elizabeth 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 Elizabeth 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.

Elizabeth Smith

Nurse Practitioner · Bethesda, MDNPI 1740896448

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,749 of the $5,800 with a category attached, or 81.9%. It is spread thinly across 53 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 9.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,053 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $113 in 2024. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in MD 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.

$5,800in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 241 payments — averaging $24.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$574
Johnson & Johnson$551
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$432
Astellas Pharma US Inc$400
Incyte Corporation$349
Amgen$328
plus $3K from 47 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,74982%
Education$1,05218%

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
Novartis	27	$574
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	22	$551
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	14	$432
Astellas Pharma US Inc	9	$400
Incyte Corporation	11	$349
Amgen	12	$328
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	13	$247
Merck	13	$230
Seagen Inc.	11	$218
Sanofi	7	$166
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$144
Bristol Myers Squibb	6	$137
Myovant Sciences Inc.	4	$130
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$127
Bayer	7	$113
Lilly USA, LLC	7	$109
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	5	$107
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$100
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	4	$98
AbbVie	5	$90
Morphosys, US Inc.	4	$82
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	4	$77
Eisai Inc.	4	$77
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	3	$64
GE HealthCare	1	$60
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$59
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	2	$58
Sobi, Inc	2	$44
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	2	$42
EUSA Pharma (US) LLC	2	$39
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	2	$38
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$38
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$35
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$35
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$33
Tempus AI, Inc	1	$29
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	2	$29
GSK	1	$28
Clovis Oncology, Inc.	1	$25
BTG International Inc.	2	$25
Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$24
Exelixis Inc.	1	$22
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$21
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$20
Pfizer	1	$20
Acceleron Pharma, Inc.	1	$19
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	1	$18
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Dova Pharmaceuticals	1	$16
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$15
Emmaus Medical, Inc.	1	$12

How this compares

$5,800 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,562 nurse practitioner providers in Maryland.

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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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