Jeremy Smitherman, MD
Pain Medicine · Flowood, MSNPI 1457507055
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,144 of the $11,247 with a category attached, or 81.3%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 45.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $3,195 and has fallen 60.5% since, to $1,261 in 2025.
Across 272 payments — averaging $41.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$5K
- Abbott$2K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$1K
- Nalu Medical, Inc.$634
- Nevro Corp.$534
- Medtronic$290
- plus $989 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,25011%
- Travel & lodging$8538%
- Food & beverage$9,14481%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 173 | $5,098 |
| Abbott | 24 | $2,453 |
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 1 | $1,250 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 19 | $634 |
| Nevro Corp. | 10 | $534 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $290 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 6 | $212 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 5 | $184 |
| Painteq LLC | 1 | $102 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Avanos Medical | 2 | $59 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Stryker | 2 | $30 |
| Foundation Fusion Solutions, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $19 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
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
$11,247 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 48 pain medicine providers in Mississippi.
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 | 398 | $7,340 |
| Pregabalin | 236 | $5,068 |
| Gabapentin | 338 | $3,213 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 66 | $1,539 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 173 | $1,517 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 122 | $631 |
| Celecoxib | 37 | $548 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 46 | $516 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 50 | $492 |
| Meloxicam | 161 | $419 |
| Methocarbamol | 43 | $343 |
| Methylprednisolone | 46 | $301 |
| Nortriptyline Hcl | 58 | $298 |
| Mupirocin | 35 | $272 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 12 | $213 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Flowood
- Landon BurnsFlowood$22K
- Thomas BufordFlowood$10K
- Ronald WilliamsFlowood$105
- John DoddFlowood$83
- Jeffrey SummersFlowood$47
- Rayhan TariqLaurel$64K
- Alan TorreyVicksburg$30K
- Joe CookByram$21K
- Bretley SitzmanHattiesburg$18K
- Michael ScarbroughCorinth$15K
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.