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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,698 in general payments to Richard Smith, MD across 126 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 Richard 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 Richard 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.

Richard Smith, MD

Foot and Ankle Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1669961702

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (52.8%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $9,580, 7.8 times the $1,224 reported in 2021.

$17,698in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 126 payments — averaging $140.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$4K
Arthrex$4K
Smith+Nephew$3K
Paragon 28, Inc.$1K
Legacy Ortho LLC$1K
Medshape, Inc.$1K
plus $4K from 18 others

What the payments were for

Grants$1,6009%
Travel & lodging$9,34853%
Food & beverage$5,20429%
Education$1,5469%

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
Stryker	38	$4,170
Arthrex	27	$3,564
Smith+Nephew	10	$2,515
Paragon 28, Inc.	7	$1,215
Legacy Ortho LLC	1	$1,200
Medshape, Inc.	2	$1,003
Supreme Orthopedic Systems, LLC	6	$807
Native Surgical, LLC	8	$764
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	2	$763
Zimmer Biomet	4	$367
International Life Sciences	1	$294
Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.	3	$168
Medline Industries LP	1	$138
Abbott	1	$129
Medtronic	2	$120
Linvatec Corporation	2	$116
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$115
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$109
Mid-atlantic Surgical Systems, LLC	2	$33
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$30
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$22
Biopro, Inc.	1	$22
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$20
Boston Scientific	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.

ACUFEX Meniscal Root Repair$2,166
CAP-FIX$1,736
Healicoil$1,736
NOVOSTITCH$1,736
Q-FIX$1,736
INFINITY ADAPTIS$1,462
PROstep$835
Arsenal Ankle 10 Hole 1/3 Tubular Plate$763
Phantom Intramedullary Nail$638
DynaNail Helix, Washer, 15 mm$558
DynaClip Bone Fixation System, Quattro, 22mm x 20mm x 20mm$445
Portfolio$419
FLEXBAND$294
ALLOMATRIX$281
Persona$183
ROSA$183
mymobility Platform$183
INBONE$175
Actishield$149
EVOS$137

How this compares

$17,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 182 foot and ankle surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$27,198

Medicare patients

109

Services billed

332

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
Prochlorperazine Maleate	14	$119
Oxycodone Hcl	12	$76
Cephalexin	15	$57

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Stuart MillerBaltimore$583K
Patrick MaloneyBaltimore$262K
Gregory GuytonBaltimore$216K
Clifford JengBaltimore$74K
Kyung SeoBaltimore$23K
Jacob WisbeckBaltimore$17K
Stephen JacobsenBaltimore$17K
Brady WilliamsBaltimore$17K
Walter HembreeBaltimore$16K

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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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