Farin Smith, MD
Trauma Surgery · Huntsville, ALNPI 1730236555
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.4% of the total across 41 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 44.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $544 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $150 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $3,837.
Across 41 payments — averaging $50.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$913
- Davol Inc.$183
- Kerecis Limited$177
- KCI USA, Inc.$142
- Innovation Technologies Inc$129
- Johnson & Johnson$104
- plus $417 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$322%
- Food & beverage$2,03398%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $913 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $183 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $177 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $142 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $129 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $104 |
| ICU Medical Inc | 1 | $51 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $48 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $39 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $29 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- STRATTICE$422
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$219
- Phasix Mesh$183
- Irrisept$129
- PREVENA$111
How this compares
$2,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 26 trauma surgery providers in Alabama.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other trauma surgery in Huntsville
- Rony NajjarHuntsville$13K
- Jeffrey WalkerHuntsville$5K
- Kevin TylerHuntsville$2K
- Matthew SeamanHuntsville$2K
- Deepak KatyalHuntsville$1K
- John VermillionMontgomery$87K
- John HolcombBirmingham$45K
- Jan JansenBirmingham$18K
- Charles ButtsMobile$13K
- James HwangBirmingham$13K
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.