Steven Smith, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Fort Smith, ARNPI 1083682108
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,240 of the $6,220 with a category attached, or 84.2%. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,643 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $16 in 2025.
Across 21 payments — averaging $296.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$435
- Innovation Technologies Inc$36
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$16
- Johnson & Johnson$16
- plus $14 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,24084%
- Food & beverage$5459%
- Education$4357%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $4,153 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 11 | $1,548 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 1 | $435 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $2 |
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
$6,220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 168 orthopaedic surgery providers in Arkansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 234 | $2,317 |
| Celecoxib | 141 | $2,304 |
| Meloxicam | 128 | $508 |
| Gabapentin | 46 | $496 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 16 | $477 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 33 | $304 |
| Methylprednisolone | 28 | $213 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 34 | $124 |
| Prednisone | 48 | $68 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 15 | $28 |
| Amoxicillin | 24 | $18 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Fort Smith
- Jonathan TobeyFort Smith$48K
- Kaleb SmithsonFort Smith$7K
- Keith BolyardFort Smith$7K
- Benjamin StronachLittle Rock$2.5M
- Charles BarnesLittle Rock$2.1M
- Kenneth MartinLittle Rock$322K
- Wesley CoxFayetteville$309K
- William HefleyNorth Little Rock$306K
- David BumpassLittle Rock$175K
- Lawrence O'MalleyLittle Rock$151K
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.