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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $383 in general payments to Townsend Smith, MD across 25 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 Townsend 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 Townsend 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.

Townsend Smith, MD

Pain Medicine · Dayton, OHNPI 1154404440

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $283 of the $383 with a category attached, or 73.9%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 49.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $155 and has fallen 89.5% since, to $16 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $1,899.

$383in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $15.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Pfizer$189
Comsort, Inc$100
Kaleo, Inc.$37
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.$30
Abbott$16
Shionogi Inc$11

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$10026%
Food & beverage$28374%

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
Pfizer	18	$189
Comsort, Inc	1	$100
Kaleo, Inc.	2	$37
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	2	$30
Abbott	1	$16
Shionogi Inc	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.

BRIDION$100

How this compares

$383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 245 pain medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$189,216

Medicare patients

613

Services billed

2,020

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
MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate	34	$15,970
Buprenorphine	36	$12,519
Fentanyl	83	$11,758
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	376	$8,580
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	299	$8,417
Gabapentin	573	$7,849
Nucynta ErTapentadol Hcl	11	$7,193
Diflorasone Diacetate	14	$6,793
Pregabalin	237	$5,615
Tramadol Hcl	381	$4,408
Tizanidine Hcl	198	$3,827
Oxycodone Hcl	145	$3,718
Desonide	19	$2,437
Naloxone Hcl	48	$2,419
Diclofenac Sodium	96	$1,446

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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