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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,828 in general payments to Jeffrey Smith, MD across 54 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 Jeffrey 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 Jeffrey 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.

Jeffrey Smith, MD

Interventional Pain Medicine · Spartanburg, SCNPI 1437361334

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 54 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Abbott accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for interventional pain medicine clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $3,940.

$1,828in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $33.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Abbott$1K
Medtronic$257
Globus Medical$110
Nalu Medical, Inc.$91
Nevro Corp.$50
Inari Medical, Inc.$41
plus $108 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,828100%

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
Abbott	34	$1,171
Medtronic(2 entities)	7	$257
Globus Medical	3	$110
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$91
Nevro Corp.	2	$50
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$41
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$35
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	1	$21
Vertex	1	$17
Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$12
Pfizer	1	$12
Amgen	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.

How this compares

$1,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 38 interventional pain medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$733,924

Medicare patients

1,103

Services billed

44,020

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	2,876	$66,253
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	2,031	$57,594
NucyntaTapentadol Hcl	33	$51,708
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	45	$41,297
Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl	18	$22,369
Pregabalin	767	$17,319
Gabapentin	996	$14,213
Buprenorphine	23	$7,703
Oxycodone Hcl	447	$7,452
Duloxetine Hcl	364	$6,823
Diclofenac Sodium	359	$6,607
Lidocaine	61	$6,067
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl	14	$5,695
Tizanidine Hcl	598	$4,413
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	201	$3,814

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other interventional pain medicine in Spartanburg

Joshua BighamSpartanburg$14K
Yevgeny MironerSpartanburg$6K
John HaasisSpartanburg$4K
Nisarg PatelSpartanburg$3K
Mark NethertonMt Pleasant$102K
Marion McMillanSeneca$89K
Jason RosenbergMurrells Inlet$82K
Ryan NoblesMt Pleasant$43K
Justin HutchesonGreenville$23K
David RoweBluffton$9K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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