Michael Smith
Pediatric Infectious Diseases · Louisville, KYNPI 1336340454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $3,600 of the $5,321 with a category attached, or 67.7%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,721, 2.9 times the $600 reported in 2019.
Across 14 payments — averaging $380.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$5K
Across 134 payments — averaging $8297.97 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.
- Pfizer$830K
- Merck$166K
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$105K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$8K
- Modernatx, Inc.$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,60068%
- Travel & lodging$1,39226%
- Food & beverage$3306%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 14 | $5,321 |
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.
- PREVYMIS$1,542
How this compares
Too few pediatric infectious diseases providers in Kentuckyto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other pediatric infectious diseases in Louisville
- Gary MarshallLouisville$395K
- Victoria StatlerLouisville$16K
- Shanna BartonLouisville$3K
- Navjyot VidwanLouisville$370
- Daniel BlattLouisville$125
- Kristina BryantLouisville$45
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.