Louis Smith
Internal Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1679519292
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 267 payments — averaging $14.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$680
- Abbott$567
- AbbVie$411
- Pfizer$289
- Novartis$262
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$229
- plus $1K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,875100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 46 | $680 |
| Abbott | 33 | $567 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 36 | $411 |
| Pfizer | 27 | $289 |
| Novartis | 17 | $262 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 11 | $229 |
| Novo Nordisk | 21 | $213 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $142 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $130 |
| GSK | 7 | $113 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $80 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $80 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $72 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $71 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bayer | 2 | $25 |
| Merck | 2 | $24 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$3,875 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Knoxville
- Amanda Moore MillerKnoxville$2.3M
- George NewmanKnoxville$682K
- Dennis DeruelleKnoxville$263K
- Lewis HagoodKnoxville$143K
- Johnny AltawilKnoxville$23K
- Mark McKenzieChattanooga$11.9M
- Bernard GrunstraBristol$6.4M
- Jewel WhiteKingsport$5.7M
- Judith WhiteKingsport$5.6M
- Obadias MarquezOoltewah$2.8M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.