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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $303,441 in general payments to Phillip Smith, MD across 593 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 Phillip 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 Phillip 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.

Phillip Smith, MD

Pain Medicine · Greenville, SCNPI 1356545081

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $248,790 of the $303,441 with a category attached, or 82.0%. Medtronic accounts for 94.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among pain medicine clinicians in SC 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.

$303,441in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 593 payments — averaging $511.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$285K
SPR Therapeutics, Inc$14K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
Boston Scientific$1K
Abbott$500
Vertos Medical, Inc.$374
plus $163 from 3 others

$1,025in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $1025.00 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.

Medtronic$1K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,2304%
Speaking & faculty fees$248,79082%
Travel & lodging$26,0709%
Food & beverage$15,3505%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	518	$285,105
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	29	$14,280
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	12	$1,749
Boston Scientific	14	$1,268
Abbott	8	$500
Vertos Medical, Inc.	6	$374
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	3	$107
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	2	$41
Painteq LLC	1	$15

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

$303,441 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 92 pain medicine providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$187,557

Medicare patients

324

Services billed

3,334

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl	13	$11,176
Fentanyl	54	$5,813
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	279	$5,750
Buprenorphine	22	$5,176
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	164	$5,082
Pregabalin	168	$3,788
Gabapentin	167	$2,381
Oxycodone Hcl	108	$1,783
Celecoxib	121	$1,377
Duloxetine Hcl	70	$965
Tramadol Hcl	137	$869
Naloxone Hcl	12	$813
Morphine Sulfate	28	$753
Hydromorphone Hcl	31	$588
Diclofenac Sodium	12	$588

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other pain medicine in Greenville

Daniel AtkinsonGreenville$36K
Kevin WalkerGreenville$14K
Christian RoehmerGreenville$11K
Keith SchiffGreenville$10K
Ashley BaranowskiGreenville$6K
Robert WestrolGreenville$5K
Lee MullinaxGreenville$3K
Richard KlineConway$104K
Channing WilloughbyMurrells Inlet$82K
Michael WarrickSumter$50K

See the full list for South Carolina →

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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