Thomas Smith
Critical Care Medicine · Albany, NYNPI 1134115306
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,148 of the $3,290 with a category attached, or 65.3%. AstraZeneca accounts for 79.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,527 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $17 in 2025.
Across 19 payments — averaging $173.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$3K
- GSK$488
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$138
- Pfizer$33
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$17
Across 18 payments — averaging $29,629 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.
- Vertex$533K
- Vivus LLC$324
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,14865%
- Food & beverage$1,12834%
- Education$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $2,614 |
| GSK | 6 | $488 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 4 | $138 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $33 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ANORO ELLIPTA$233
- BREZTRI$205
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$120
- PERTZYE$101
- BETHKIS$101
How this compares
$3,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 442 critical care medicine providers in New York.
Other critical care medicine in Albany
- Boris ShkolnikAlbany$209K
- John O'LaughlinAlbany$4K
- Joshua RosenbergBrooklyn$881K
- Peter DicpinigaitisBronx$241K
- Roxana SulicaNew York$211K
- Paul StrachanMelville$169K
- Anna PodolanczukNew York$116K
- Joanne HessneyRochester$76K
- Jan BakkerNew York$49K
- Hugh CassiereManhasset$49K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.