Kent Smith
Gastroenterology · Riverton, UTNPI 1336183813
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 189 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. AbbVie accounts for 62.2% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,088 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $46 in 2023.
Across 189 payments — averaging $16.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Pfizer$232
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$190
- Intuitive Surgical$110
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$104
- Johnson & Johnson$90
- plus $418 from 9 others
Across 390 payments — averaging $1208.86 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.
- AbbVie$287K
- Pfizer$161K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$20K
- Novo Nordisk AS$4K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,033100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 111 | $1,888 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $232 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 12 | $190 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $110 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $104 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $90 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $89 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 5 | $83 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Merck | 4 | $70 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $33 |
| Gilead | 1 | $24 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 1 | $17 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 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
$3,033 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 122 gastroenterology providers in Utah.
Other gastroenterology in Riverton
- Umaprasanna KarnamRiverton$120K
- Brett DoxeyRiverton$6K
- Terry BoxSalt Lake City$302K
- Richard GilroySalt Lake City$192K
- Kyle EliasonOgden$128K
- Kathryn PetersonSalt Lake City$111K
- John Erikson YapSt George$94K
- Chad GonzalesOgden$25K
- Chad KawaProvo$22K
- Eric EliasonOgden$18K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.