Joni Smith, APRN
Family · Augusta, GANPI 1639525934
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 590 payments — averaging $23.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$3K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Sanofi$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$1K
- Optinose US, Inc.$727
- Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC$674
- plus $4K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$13,82099%
- Education$881%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 142 | $3,162 |
| AstraZeneca | 85 | $2,270 |
| Sanofi | 66 | $1,928 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 44 | $1,133 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 32 | $727 |
| Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC | 31 | $674 |
| CSL Behring | 34 | $589 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $464 |
| Novartis | 18 | $407 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 14 | $314 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 12 | $284 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $256 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $244 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 9 | $189 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 8 | $133 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $133 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 7 | $114 |
| Incyte Corporation | 5 | $104 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $79 |
| Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Cycle Pharmaceuticals Inc | 3 | $71 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $67 |
| Amgen | 4 | $66 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $65 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $48 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Organon | 2 | $31 |
| ADMA Biomanufacturing LLC | 1 | $27 |
| USWM, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$13,909 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 152 | $115,339 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 35 | $21,591 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 33 | $10,617 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 19 | $7,243 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 157 | $5,019 |
| Epinephrine | 26 | $4,492 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 160 | $4,376 |
| DuleraMometasone/Formoterol | 12 | $4,141 |
| Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 40 | $4,138 |
| Ipratropium Bromide | 73 | $3,574 |
| Pulmicort FlexhalerBudesonide | 12 | $2,976 |
| Famotidine | 250 | $2,854 |
| Hydroxyzine Hcl | 124 | $2,804 |
| Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate | 13 | $2,734 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 260 | $2,620 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $3,162 | $125,317184 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort, Pulmicort Flexhaler | $2,270 | $35,18480 claims |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USAEpinephrine | $114 | $4,49226 claims |
| MerckDulera | $13 | $4,14112 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.
Other family in Augusta
- Stephanie JacobsonAugusta$24K
- Clovalyn Jeffrey-McgannAugusta$19K
- Victoria BurtAugusta$15K
- Gloria DowneyAugusta$14K
- Allie McAllisterMarietta$299K
- Tonita WashingtonLawrenceville$153K
- Erin HenryLawrenceville$135K
- Trisha RomanPeachtree City$134K
- Lori ReedMarietta$106K
- Julia BranchCumming$102K
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.