Maurice Smith
Neurological Surgery · Memphis, TNNPI 1912998600
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $4,421,998 of the $4,422,018 with a category attached, or 100.0%. Medtronic accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $829,564 and has fallen 67.2% since, to $272,490 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 57 payments — averaging $77,579 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$4.4M
- AbbVie$20
Across 7 payments — averaging $3950.43 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Spine Wave, Inc.$28K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$4,421,998100%
- Food & beverage$200%
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.
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.
- METRX SYSTEM$2,202,096
- METRx$2,109,534
- CENTERPIECE$56,551
- CENTERPIECE PLATE FIXATION SYSTEM$53,817
How this compares
$4,422,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 156 neurological surgery providers in Tennessee.
Other neurological surgery in Memphis
- Kevin FoleyMemphis$162.4M
- Adam ArthurMemphis$1.9M
- Paul ParkMemphis$1.2M
- Daniel HoitMemphis$607K
- Jason GerrardMemphis$112K
- Earl JonesMemphis$59K
- Demi DawkinsMemphis$56K
- Isaac PomeraniecMemphis$56K
- Kyle SmithMemphis$48K
- Christopher NickeleMemphis$45K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.