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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $445 in general payments to Franz Smith, MD across 15 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 Franz 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 Franz 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.

Franz Smith, MD

Surgical Oncology · Livingston, NJNPI 1942503610

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $336 of the $445 with a category attached, or 75.5%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Davol Inc. at 40.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $206 and has fallen 91.5% since, to $18 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical oncology clinicians in NJ, where the typical reported total is $1,132.

$445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $29.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Davol Inc.$179
Johnson & Johnson$112
AbbVie$43
Acera Surgical, Inc.$33
CSL Behring$28
Merck$25
plus $25 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$10924%
Food & beverage$33676%

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
Davol Inc.	2	$179
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$112
AbbVie	3	$43
Acera Surgical, Inc.	2	$33
CSL Behring	2	$28
Merck	2	$25
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$13
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$12

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.

ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$109

How this compares

$445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 59 surgical oncology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,658

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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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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