Has Heather Smith, APRN received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $247 in general payments to Heather Smith, APRN 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 Heather Smith, APRN 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 Heather Smith, APRN 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.

Heather Smith, APRN

Family · Greensburg, KYNPI 1699283382

Payments from drug & device makers

$247in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $16.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$136
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32
AbbVie$30
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$19
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$17
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$13

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$247100%

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	8	$136
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$32
AbbVie	2	$30
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$19
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$13

How this compares

$247 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 4,374 family providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$201,925

Medicare patients

202

Services billed

2,695

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
EliquisApixaban	138	$83,466
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	112	$66,323
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate	44	$31,757
TrulicityDulaglutide	21	$20,726
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter	29	$19,770
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog	47	$19,236
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf	55	$16,295
DapagliflozinDapagliflozin Propanediol	40	$14,593
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	20	$11,725
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol	73	$9,648
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog	97	$8,929
GlucagenGlucagon	25	$8,167
Divalproex Sodium	144	$7,672
Mirtazapine	218	$7,013
Buspirone Hcl	270	$6,777

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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