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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,256 in general payments to John Smith, MD across 124 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 John 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 John 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.

John Smith, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Caldwell, IDNPI 1447249131

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,567 of the $3,256 with a category attached, or 78.8%. Stryker accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,136 and has fallen 75.5% since, to $279 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in ID, where the typical reported total is $4,550.

$3,256in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 124 payments — averaging $26.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Zimmer Biomet$582
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$110
Innovation Technologies Inc$51
Johnson & Johnson$44
Steelhead Surgical Inc$38
plus $144 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$68921%
Food & beverage$2,56779%

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
Stryker	90	$2,286
Zimmer Biomet	15	$582
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	7	$110
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$51
Johnson & Johnson	2	$44
Steelhead Surgical Inc	1	$38
Bioventus LLC	2	$35
Solventum Corporation	1	$32
Smith+Nephew	1	$22
Total Joint Orthopedics, Inc.	2	$20
Acell, Inc.	1	$19
Avanos Medical	1	$16

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.

MAKO$1,044
Persona Revision$112

How this compares

$3,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 139 orthopaedic surgery providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$136,528

Medicare patients

339

Services billed

3,770

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
Celecoxib	55	$1,777
Nabumetone	75	$1,341
Meloxicam	165	$631
Mupirocin	29	$199
Methylprednisolone	17	$128
Tramadol Hcl	36	$116
Cephalexin	15	$85
Oxycodone Hcl	15	$80
Amoxicillin	64	$67
Clindamycin Hcl	17	$65

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Caldwell

Michael DainesCaldwell$9K
Carl HumphreyEagle$9.4M
Richard MooreBoise$7.4M
Roman SchwartsmanBoise$358K
Lucas AndersonCoeur D Alene$243K
Jeffry MenznerBoise$194K
Justin DazleyTwin Falls$184K
Christopher HiroseBoise$182K
Joseph LynchBoise$140K
Tracye LawyerBoise$129K

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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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