Jeffrey Smith, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Birmingham, ALNPI 1790744282
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.0%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8%.
Across 238 payments — averaging $137.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$8K
- Cerapedics Inc.$4K
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$4K
- Spineology Inc.$3K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$3K
- Arthrex$2K
- plus $8K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,3157%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,5005%
- Travel & lodging$11,79036%
- Food & beverage$14,38544%
- Education$2,6178%
- Entertainment$1090%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 80 | $7,803 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 11 | $4,433 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 63 | $3,895 |
| Spineology Inc. | 4 | $3,323 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 6 | $2,845 |
| Arthrex | 17 | $2,490 |
| Prime Surgical, LLC | 8 | $2,114 |
| Abbott | 13 | $2,090 |
| Trackx Technology, Inc. | 4 | $1,227 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 13 | $569 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 3 | $505 |
| Mirus, LLC | 2 | $400 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 3 | $303 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $263 |
| Stryker | 1 | $151 |
| Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC | 1 | $92 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $69 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$13,104
- OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$2,461
- ALIF$2,070
- PROCLAIM$1,967
- CervAlign Anterior Cervical Plate$1,500
- Excelsius - GPS$1,406
- XLIF$1,272
- Medical Device$1,024
- ALLOGRAFT$922
- OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$863
- Medical Devices$675
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$473
- AXSOS$454
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$400
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$400
- MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System$400
- ELSA$300
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$221
- Modulus$186
- CD HORIZON$171
How this compares
$32,716 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 319 orthopaedic 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 | 51 | $458 |
| Methocarbamol | 50 | $397 |
| Gabapentin | 18 | $393 |
| Methylprednisolone | 11 | $120 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 17 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Birmingham
- Jeffrey DugasBirmingham$11.5M
- Benton EmblomBirmingham$3M
- Herrick SiegelBirmingham$1.2M
- Kenneth MooreBirmingham$342K
- Joseph SherrillBirmingham$221K
- Jonathan QuadeBirmingham$217K
- Ginger BryantBirmingham$209K
- Marcus RothermichBirmingham$207K
- Daniel KimBirmingham$147K
- Eugene BrabstonBirmingham$117K
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.