Has Kirby Smith received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,869 in general payments to Kirby Smith across 296 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 Kirby Smith 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 Kirby Smith 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.

Kirby Smith

Hematology & Oncology · Memphis, TNNPI 1144223298

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.3% of the total across 296 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 49 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 9.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,671 and has fallen 94.0% since, to $100 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for hematology & oncology clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $5,575.

$4,869in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 296 payments — averaging $16.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pfizer$474
Johnson & Johnson$417
Amgen$327
Novartis$296
GSK$262
Eisai Inc.$194
plus $3K from 43 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,54293%
Education$3277%

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
Pfizer	33	$474
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	26	$417
Amgen	18	$327
Novartis	21	$296
GSK	13	$262
Eisai Inc.	15	$194
Merck	11	$178
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	8	$167
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	9	$165
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	8	$157
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	8	$156
Incyte Corporation	10	$153
Astellas Pharma US Inc	4	$148
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	9	$144
Sanofi	8	$126
Genentech USA, Inc.	7	$110
Bristol Myers Squibb	8	$110
Tesaro, Inc.	5	$101
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	6	$91
Boehringer Ingelheim	3	$80
Beigene USA, Inc.	5	$79
AbbVie	5	$79
Clovis Oncology, Inc.	6	$77
Dova Pharmaceuticals	3	$67
Epizyme, Inc.	4	$61
Bayer	4	$61
Seagen Inc.	4	$60
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$58
Secura Bio, Inc.	4	$56
Acceleron Pharma, Inc.	3	$52
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	4	$49
Biocompatibles, Inc.	2	$38
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$28
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$25
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$20
ADC Therapeutics America, Inc.	1	$18
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$17
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$17
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$17
Sobi, Inc	1	$16
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	1	$16
Array Biopharma Inc	1	$16
Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$15
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	1	$12
Gilead	1	$12
Exelixis Inc.	1	$11
Morphosys, US Inc.	1	$11

How this compares

$4,869 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 251 hematology & oncology providers in Tennessee.

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Other hematology & oncology in Memphis

Ugochi OguMemphis$250K
Patricia Adams-GravesMemphis$168K
Donald GravenorMemphis$166K
Aleksandar JankovMemphis$163K
Brion RandolphMemphis$162K
Kenneth AtagaMemphis$157K
Raymond OsarogiagbonMemphis$117K
Saurin ChokshiMemphis$86K
Clyde JonesMemphis$54K
Salil GoorhaMemphis$51K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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