Pamela Smith, MD
Hematology & Oncology · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1780771824
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,738 of the $2,534 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 29.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $859 and has fallen 95.1% since, to $42 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for hematology & oncology clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $4,619.
Across 86 payments — averaging $29.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$756
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$274
- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.$196
- Novartis$179
- Pfizer$170
- AstraZeneca$115
- plus $843 from 24 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $85.75 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.
- Genentech, Inc.$86
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$48919%
- Food & beverage$1,73869%
- Education$30712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 8 | $756 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $274 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $196 |
| Novartis | 9 | $179 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $170 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 7 | $115 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Gilead(2 entities) | 4 | $64 |
| Amgen | 3 | $61 |
| GSK | 3 | $59 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $44 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Incyte Corporation | 2 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $29 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $29 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $15 |
| Dova Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $14 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 1 | $14 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$2,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 143 hematology & oncology providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XtandiEnzalutamide | 31 | $441,416 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 29 | $402,699 |
| JakafiRuxolitinib Phosphate | 30 | $345,428 |
| VenclextaVenetoclax | 30 | $330,146 |
| PomalystPomalidomide | 18 | $325,440 |
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 22 | $303,716 |
| SprycelDasatinib | 19 | $265,587 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 25 | $240,475 |
| Lenalidomide | 19 | $224,096 |
| NubeqaDarolutamide | 14 | $185,613 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 12 | $84,275 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 20 | $28,170 |
| EliquisApixaban | 31 | $21,230 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 16 | $13,849 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 77 | $12,903 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.Pomalyst, Sprycel | $29 | $591,02837 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi | $274 | $441,41631 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $115 | $402,69929 claims |
| Incyte CorporationJakafi | $30 | $345,42830 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta | $15 | $330,14630 claims |
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $44 | $303,71622 claims |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie CompanyImbruvica | $15 | $240,47525 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $179 | $84,27512 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $170 | $21,23031 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $29 | $13,84916 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 35th percentile of 143 hematology & oncology providers in Kentucky.
Other hematology & oncology in Bowling Green
- Vidya SeshadriBowling Green$24K
- Catherine HeltsleyBowling Green$14K
- Diego Cabrera FernandezBowling Green$12K
- Firas BadinLexington$1.6M
- Vivek SharmaLouisville$647K
- Goetz KloeckerLouisville$584K
- Nicola JabbourLexington$563K
- Jeffrey HargisLouisville$450K
- Mohamed HegaziLouisville$380K
- Khuda KhanLouisville$359K
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.