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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $153,263 in general payments to John Smith, MD across 178 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

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1316971757

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $111,450 of the $153,263 with a category attached, or 72.7%. Atricure, Inc. accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$153,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 178 payments — averaging $861.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Atricure, Inc.$119K
Intuitive Surgical$16K
Biostable Science & Engineering$13K
Artivion, Inc.$2K
Abbott$1K
Edwards Lifesciences$952
plus $662 from 8 others

$71,748in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $1353.74 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Atricure, Inc.$70K
Medtronic$2K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$111,45073%
Speaking & faculty fees$13,0008%
Grants$2,4002%
Travel & lodging$19,89013%
Food & beverage$6,5234%

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
Atricure, Inc.	111	$118,593
Intuitive Surgical	31	$16,341
Biostable Science & Engineering	2	$13,200
Artivion, Inc.	8	$2,452
Abbott	6	$1,062
Edwards Lifesciences	9	$952
Medtronic	4	$194
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$174
Medistim USA, Inc.	1	$120
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$96
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$25
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	1	$22
Legacy Ortho LLC	1	$16
Solventum Corporation	1	$15

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.

ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$27,856
ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$25,693
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$22,470
Da Vinci Surgical System$15,387
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$13,413
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$11,500
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$9,768
ATRICURE CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$9,281
ISOLATOR SURGICAL ABLATION SYSTEM$5,601
DISSECTOR$4,500
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$1,464
Cardiac non-SynerGraft$1,324
LARIAT RS$1,250
HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$903
CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$663
Intraclude Device$148
MiraQ$120
ACC2 CARDIAC CRYOSURGICAL SYSTEM$105

How this compares

$153,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 245 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$156,042

Medicare patients

113

Services billed

214

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	27	$210

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Louis BrunstingCincinnati$210K
David MoralesCincinnati$163K
Kathryn O'KeefeCincinnati$123K
Julian Guitron-RoigCincinnati$85K
Robert DowlingCincinnati$82K
Saad HasanCincinnati$35K
Carmen TugulanCincinnati$32K
Mohi MitiekCincinnati$25K
Cristiano SpadaccioCincinnati$21K

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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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