Lawson Smart, MD
Sports Medicine · Syracuse, NYNPI 1831373224
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $1,000 of the $1,248 with a category attached, or 80.1%. Arthrex accounts for 80.1% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,028 and has fallen 86.1% since, to $143 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for sports medicine clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $1,127.
Across 9 payments — averaging $138.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$1K
- Stryker$143
- Smith+Nephew$54
- Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc.$28
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$22
- BREG, Inc$2
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00080%
- Food & beverage$24820%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 1 | $1,000 |
| Stryker | 1 | $143 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $54 |
| Prodigy Surgical Distribution, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 3 | $22 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $2 |
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$143
How this compares
$1,248 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 285 | $761 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 108 | $446 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $305 |
| Naproxen | 13 | $90 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 18 | $29 |
| Amoxicillin | 12 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Syracuse
- Bradley RaphaelSyracuse$70K
- Steven LeeNyc$3.3M
- James PaciWoodbury$2.1M
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Ilya VoloshinRochester$786K
- Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Stephen NicholasNyc$586K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
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.