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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $54,555 in general payments to Gregory Smith, MD across 130 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 Gregory 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 Gregory 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.

Gregory Smith, MD

Anesthesiology · Little Rock, ARNPI 1770977886

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.4%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by SPR Therapeutics, Inc at 43.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $39,486, more than ten times the $1,535 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology clinicians in AR 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.

$54,555in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $419.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

SPR Therapeutics, Inc$23K
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.$19K
Abbott$8K
Stratus Medical, LLC$2K
MML US, Inc.$994
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$529
plus $684 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$30,77556%
Travel & lodging$17,30332%
Food & beverage$6,47712%

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
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	26	$23,487
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	31	$19,220
Abbott	44	$7,870
Stratus Medical, LLC	9	$1,771
MML US, Inc.	8	$994
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	5	$529
Boston Scientific	2	$308
Medtronic	1	$206
Nevro Corp.	1	$100
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$29
Vertos Medical, Inc.	1	$26
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$15

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.

How this compares

$54,555 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 300 anesthesiology providers in Arkansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$134,792

Medicare patients

366

Services billed

1,368

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
Duloxetine Hcl	44	$1,067
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	32	$606
Oxycodone Hcl	39	$456
Meloxicam	113	$363
Baclofen	51	$327
Gabapentin	31	$299
Nortriptyline Hcl	37	$289
Methadone Hcl	20	$168
Methylprednisolone	20	$159
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	17	$141
Tizanidine Hcl	30	$109
Diclofenac Sodium	16	$100
Clonidine Hcl	13	$34

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other anesthesiology in Little Rock

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Julius BaloghLittle Rock$245K
Brian MalkiLittle Rock$29K
Aparna JindalLittle Rock$10K
Jarna ShahLittle Rock$10K
Brian JansenLittle Rock$8K
Jaleesa JacksonLittle Rock$4K
Juan RomanLittle Rock$4K
Felipe MedeirosLittle Rock$3K
Rodney McCarverLittle Rock$3K

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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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