Stuart Smith, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Nashville, TNNPI 1790786887
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $12,724 of the $14,409 with a category attached, or 88.3%. Medacta USA, Inc. accounts for 66.3% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $9,460 and has fallen 92.2% since, to $735 in 2025.
Across 24 payments — averaging $600.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$10K
- Zimmer Biomet$3K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Vertex$34
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$29
- Heraeus Medical, LLC.$20
- plus $11 from 1 others
Across 41 payments — averaging $2651.01 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.
- Smith+Nephew$109K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$12,72488%
- Food & beverage$1,68512%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 8 | $9,560 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 8 | $3,117 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $1,639 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 1 | $29 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- AMISTEM$6,211
- GMK SPHERE$3,312
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$1,639
- Journey II$1,639
- Legion Revision$1,639
- Tandem$1,639
- REDAPT$1,639
- Avenir$1,479
- Persona$862
- ROSA$622
How this compares
$14,409 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 17 | $709 |
| Amoxicillin | 145 | $541 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 61 | $432 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 34 | $265 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $216 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $148 |
| Meloxicam | 24 | $130 |
| Cephalexin | 36 | $124 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 15 | $96 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $63 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Nashville
- Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
- Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
- Matthew WillisNashville$498K
- Michael ChristieNashville$474K
- David DeboerNashville$448K
- Rudolph GlattesNashville$444K
- John MartinNashville$212K
- Nicholas StrasserNashville$184K
- Jeffrey HodrickNashville$173K
- Brian DierckmanNashville$172K
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.