Steven Smart, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Evanston, ILNPI 1669476545
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,143 of the $3,184 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Abbott accounts for 83.4% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,083 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $34 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $86.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Medtronic$281
- Edwards Lifesciences$187
- Greer Laboratories, Inc.$27
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$20
- Pfizer$15
Across 24 payments — averaging $6728.11 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$161K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,04133%
- Food & beverage$2,14367%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 29 | $2,654 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $281 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $187 |
| Greer Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 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.
- MitraClip$1,456
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$266
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$152
How this compares
$3,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 22 | $30,133 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 17 | $20,627 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 12 | $14,315 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 93 | $1,112 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 74 | $994 |
| Ezetimibe | 29 | $835 |
| Potassium Chloride | 18 | $710 |
| Spironolactone | 39 | $414 |
| Carvedilol | 55 | $377 |
| Warfarin Sodium | 38 | $270 |
| Furosemide | 82 | $243 |
| Losartan Potassium | 57 | $239 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 47 | $218 |
| Diltiazem 24hr ErDiltiazem Hcl | 14 | $176 |
| Lisinopril | 40 | $168 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $15 | $30,13322 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 65th percentile of 932 cardiovascular disease providers in Illinois.
Other cardiovascular disease in Evanston
- Amit PursnaniEvanston$115K
- Nikhil NarangEvanston$114K
- Jamil DihuEvanston$83K
- Eileen GajoEvanston$36K
- Sandeep NathanChicago$892K
- Alan BrownNaperville$858K
- Azmey MatariehElgin$762K
- Jay AlexanderBannockburn$744K
- Niraj VarmaMaywood$522K
- Boaz AvitallChicago$366K
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.