Has Jay Smith received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $101,910 in general payments to Jay Smith across 221 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 Jay 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 Jay 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.

Jay Smith

Prosthodontics · Atlanta, GANPI 1134248362

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $87,611 of the $101,910 with a category attached, or 86.0%. Zimvie Inc. accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $34,817, more than ten times the $2,149 reported in 2019. Among prosthodontics clinicians in GA 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.

$101,910in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 221 payments — averaging $461.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimvie Inc.$98K
Zimmer Biomet$2K
Straumann USA LLC$772
Thommen Medical USA, LLC$201
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.$122
Align Technology, Inc.$86
plus $120 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$87,61186%
Travel & lodging$5,0135%
Food & beverage$8,9289%
Education$2360%
Gifts$160%
Entertainment$1060%

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
Zimvie Inc.	148	$98,313
Zimmer Biomet	50	$2,297
Straumann USA LLC	11	$772
Thommen Medical USA, LLC	5	$201
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	1	$122
Align Technology, Inc.	1	$86
Southern Implants North America Inc	1	$74
3M Company	2	$26
Nobel Biocare USA	1	$14
VOCO America Inc.	1	$6

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

$101,910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 78 prosthodontics providers in Georgia.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin	21	$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other prosthodontics in Atlanta

Cary GoldsteinAtlanta$75K
Evan GrodinAtlanta$4K
Herman DonatelliAtlanta$3K
Didier GuillaumeAtlanta$3K
Michael TehraniAtlanta$2K
Anna RefaiAtlanta$2K
Louisa BermanAtlanta$943
David ZelbyAtlanta$850
Hal ArnoldAtlanta$486
Benjamin BlackburnAtlanta$311

See the full list for Georgia →

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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