Paul Smith, PA
Surgical · Pueblo, CONPI 1396835351
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,916 of the $2,950 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Abiomed accounts for 81.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,280 and has fallen 78.0% since, to $282 in 2025. Among surgical clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 29 payments — averaging $101.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$2K
- Medtronic$226
- AbbVie$125
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$89
- Atricure, Inc.$39
- Vapotherm Inc$37
- plus $45 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,91665%
- Food & beverage$1,03435%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 12 | $2,389 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $226 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $89 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Vapotherm Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $18 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $13 |
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
$2,950 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 495 surgical providers in Colorado.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 14 | $59 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 16 | $58 |
| Furosemide | 12 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgical in Pueblo
- Michael WellsAurora$26K
- Charles EttelsonDenver$24K
- Joshua CrossLakewood$17K
- Mitchell EricksonAurora$16K
- Tim FilzenColorado Springs$13K
- Charles JenningsThornton$9K
- Joshua KatzDenver$8K
- Jordyn AlmeidaDenver$8K
- Nicole KenyonDenver$7K
- Yasmeen BierwirthBoulder$6K
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.