RxDoctor Payments Data

Staci Smith, DO

Nephrology · Pikeville, KYNPI 1558576454

Payments from drug & device makers

$496in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $17.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$113
  • Vifor Pharma, Inc.$100
  • AbbVie$69
  • AstraZeneca$63
  • OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$53
  • Novartis$30
  • plus $68 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$43588%
  • Education$6112%

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

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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.

How this compares

$496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 165 nephrology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$51,144
Medicare patients
244
Services billed
506

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol37$35,363
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan32$31,393
OzempicSemaglutide12$21,062
ClinolipidFat Emulsion/Olive/Soy/Phospho53$17,489
MyrbetriqMirabegron13$7,910
ProsolParenteral Amino Acid 20% No.131$5,897
Potassium Chloride113$5,513
Nebivolol Hcl26$2,207
Torsemide55$1,584
Valsartan51$1,528
Nifedipine ErNifedipine38$1,160
Allopurinol67$840
Metoprolol Succinate28$724
Losartan Potassium95$675
Furosemide61$426

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AstraZenecaFarxiga$63$35,36337 claims
NovartisEntresto$30$31,39332 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 35th percentile of 165 nephrology providers in Kentucky.

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