Has Micah Smith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $673,745 in general payments to Micah Smith, MD across 583 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 Micah Smith, MD 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 Micah Smith, MD 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.

Micah Smith, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Wayne, INNPI 1679730832

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (54.2%), royalties or licence payments and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 31.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $164,546, 5.7 times the $28,910 reported in 2019. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in IN 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.

$673,745in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 583 payments — averaging $1155.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Globus Medical$213K
Surgentec$123K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$76K
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus$39K
Zimmer Biomet$36K
Stryker$34K
plus $152K from 36 others

$531,409in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $9322.97 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.

Spineart SA$415K
Si-bone, Inc.$36K
Zimmer Biomet$27K
Globus Medical$27K
Spineart USA Inc$21K
Spineology Inc.$5K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$181,21927%
Consulting fees$365,37354%
Speaking & faculty fees$39,3636%
Travel & lodging$69,83810%
Food & beverage$15,6732%
Education$5000%
Gifts$5300%
Charitable contribution$1,2500%

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
Globus Medical	178	$213,121
Surgentec	14	$122,849
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	27	$76,203
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	51	$39,331
Zimmer Biomet	43	$35,908
Stryker	56	$33,912
Spineology Inc.	15	$31,276
Integrity Implants Inc.	39	$29,924
Spineart USA Inc	40	$28,007
Spinal Elements, Inc.	18	$17,663
Si-bone, Inc.	25	$15,618
Spineart SA	2	$7,599
Theragen, Inc.	4	$5,826
CTL Medical Corporation	2	$4,500
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	15	$1,911
Steris Corporation	2	$1,454
Sivantage, Inc.	2	$1,335
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$1,281
Brainlab, Inc.	4	$1,177
Choice Spine, LLC	2	$1,149
Mirus, LLC	4	$971
Medtronic(2 entities)	9	$580
Interventional Pain Technologies Inc.	1	$500
Nanovis LLC	1	$363
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	7	$188
Nanohive Medical LLC	1	$147
4web, Inc.	1	$131
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$120
Carbofix Spine Inc	2	$119
MF MED	2	$111
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$100
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	1	$73
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$54
Nexxt Spine LLC	1	$48
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$47
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$33
Alphatec Spine, Inc	2	$31
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	1	$24
Crossroads Orthopedics, LLC	1	$20
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	1	$17
Aesculap Implant Systems, LLC	1	$14
Biocomposites Inc	1	$10

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.

Osteoflo$54,625
Vyrsa V1$51,726
FlareHawk$48,014
ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$45,751
ION$37,125
Enza 2.0$29,906
Hydrofiber$28,777
Excelsius - GPS$26,598
OptiMesh Interbody Fusion System$26,386
Spira$22,652
Hydroputty$20,423
ION Facet Screw System$18,000
ELSA$15,950
Orthros Quarter Turn$15,747
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$14,883
ION Facet Screw$14,024
CREO MIS Stabilization System$13,849
PD-Spine-New Product$11,716
ROSA-One-Spine$11,400
ROSA Spine$10,636

How this compares

$673,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 400 orthopaedic surgery providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$346,090

Medicare patients

319

Services billed

2,312

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
Mupirocin	197	$1,305
Gabapentin	118	$1,127
Celecoxib	52	$1,008
Tizanidine Hcl	133	$806
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	52	$687
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	41	$504
Methocarbamol	32	$401
Pregabalin	14	$385
Prednisone	61	$249
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	39	$245
Tramadol Hcl	34	$125
Cephalexin	20	$100
Meloxicam	41	$86
Diazepam	11	$10

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Wayne

John WilliamsFort Wayne$2.7M
Alan McGeeFort Wayne$1.1M
Alan McGeeFort Wayne$135K
Brandon HugginsFort Wayne$87K
Christopher JohnsonFort Wayne$86K
Michael LeeFort Wayne$42K
Frank KolisekGreenwood$7.5M
David FisherIndianapolis$5.9M
Michael BerendIndianapolis$4M
Sanford KunkelIndianapolis$1.9M

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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.

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