Has Steven Smith, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,082 in general payments to Steven Smith, MD across 107 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Smith, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Smith, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Smith, MD

Cardiovascular Disease · Johnson City, TNNPI 1699763359

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,863 of the $2,082 with a category attached, or 89.5%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) at 35.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $459, 2.2 times the $210 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $1,892.

$2,082in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 107 payments — averaging $19.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$744
Boehringer Ingelheim$269
Novartis$243
AstraZeneca$227
Biotronik Inc.$105
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$84
plus $409 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,86389%
Education$21911%

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
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	42	$744
Boehringer Ingelheim	9	$269
Novartis	21	$243
AstraZeneca	8	$227
Biotronik Inc.	1	$105
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	5	$84
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	2	$69
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$62
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$54
Pfizer	3	$52
Abbott	2	$35
Medtronic	2	$34
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	1	$26
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Abiomed	1	$20
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Cardinal Health 200 LLC	1	$11
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$8

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.

JARDIANCE$115

How this compares

$2,082 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 429 cardiovascular disease providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$90,768

Medicare patients

377

Services billed

895

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
Lisinopril	80	$338
Isosorbide Mononitrate ErIsosorbide Mononitrate	30	$316
Losartan Potassium	21	$138
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	13	$101
Metoprolol Succinate	14	$101
Metoprolol Tartrate	26	$98
Amlodipine Besylate	26	$98
Carvedilol	16	$73
Atenolol	16	$72
Hydralazine Hcl	13	$66
Hydrochlorothiazide	23	$34

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other cardiovascular disease in Johnson City

David MetzgerKingsport$555K
Christopher EllisNashville$527K
Joann LindenfeldNashville$270K
Steven GubinMemphis$248K
Andrew ZurickNashville$231K
Mark ZenkerNashville$225K
Selcuk TombulChattanooga$198K
George CrossleyNashville$197K
Joel PharesNashville$171K
Arvindh KanagasundramNashville$161K

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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.

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