Samuel Smith, MD
Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Memphis, TNNPI 1073967949
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,461 of the $2,232 with a category attached, or 65.5%. It is spread thinly across 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2%. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $923 and has fallen 50.7% since, to $455 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $72.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cochlear Americas$496
- Medtronic$493
- Smith+Nephew$399
- Kls-martin L.p.$333
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$240
- Med-el Corporation$131
- plus $140 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,46165%
- Education$77135%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cochlear Americas | 8 | $496 |
| Medtronic | 8 | $493 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $399 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $333 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $240 |
| Med-el Corporation | 2 | $131 |
| Advanced Bionics, LLC | 1 | $82 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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
Too few plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in Tennesseeto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Memphis
- John HodgesMemphis$578
- Jason HallKnoxville$68K
- James ShireChattanooga$33K
- Eben RosenthalNashville$23K
- James BekenyNashville$10K
- Elizabeth PerkinsNashville$9K
- Howard HammerDickson$7K
- Marc FeeleyNashville$3K
- Richard DepersioPowell$3K
- Charles SewallOak Ridge$2K
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.