Robert Smith, MD
Vascular Surgery · Temple, TXNPI 1023335007
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,296 of the $7,106 with a category attached, or 74.5%. W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. accounts for 60.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,544 and has fallen 62.3% since, to $960 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $7,106.
Across 80 payments — averaging $88.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$4K
- Medtronic$1K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$682
- Edwards Lifesciences$355
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$102
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$75
- plus $122 from 5 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $2227.23 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.
- Bolton Medical Inc$18K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,81025%
- Food & beverage$5,29675%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 51 | $4,294 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 15 | $1,477 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $682 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $355 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Neuros Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 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.
- GORE TAG Conformable Thoracic Stent Graft$672
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$650
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$650
- GORE TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$532
- ENDURANT IIS$481
- GORE EXCLUDER Thoracoabdominal Branch Endoprosthesis$477
- GORE TAG Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis$386
- GORE VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endo$364
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$297
- Endurant$263
- GORE VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin$207
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$200
- APOLLOTM$162
- GORE EXCLUDER AAA Endoprosthesis$139
- VIABAHN VBX Balloon Expandable Endoprosthesis$133
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with Heparin Bioactive Surface$123
- EXCLUDER Conformable AAA Endoprosthesis with Active Control$107
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$107
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$107
- C3 Delivery System$103
How this compares
$7,106 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 347 vascular surgery providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 11 | $80 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Temple
- Gregory PearlDallas$2.3M
- Mazin FotehAustin$1.6M
- Alan LumsdenHouston$742K
- Stephen HohmannDallas$499K
- Michael SiahDallas$392K
- Gustavo OderichHouston$319K
- Jean BismuthHouston$243K
- Carlos TimaranDallas$231K
- Dennis GableDallas$211K
- Thomas LohShenandoah$201K
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.