William Smith
Orthopaedic Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1568673911
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $6,650,936 of the $7,687,401 with a category attached, or 86.5%. Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. accounts for 98.5% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 893 payments — averaging $8608.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$7.6M
- Extremity Medical$94K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$12K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- plus $2K from 10 others
Across 7 payments — averaging $3571.43 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.
- Gramercy Extremity Orthopedics LLC$25K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$6,650,93687%
- Consulting fees$905,46312%
- Speaking & faculty fees$120%
- Travel & lodging$107,2541%
- Food & beverage$20,3730%
- Education$3,3640%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 810 | $7,574,766 |
| Extremity Medical | 37 | $94,138 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 12 | $11,716 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 3 | $2,158 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,601 |
| Smith+Nephew | 12 | $1,115 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 4 | $989 |
| Vilex LLC | 1 | $208 |
| Stryker | 1 | $167 |
| In2bones USA, LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Restor3d, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Crossroads Extremity Systems, LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Surgenex LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $20 |
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.
- Lapiplasty System$6,628,127
- LAPIPLASTY SYSTEM 1$932,049
- AXIS$82,085
- OMNI$14,702
- Pertrochanteric Fixator$5,200
- Centronail Titanium Supracondylar and Retrograde Nail$5,200
- Stainless Steel Antegrade Nails$5,200
- Fragment Fixation System (FFS)$5,200
- Centronail Titanium Tibial Nail$5,200
- Pelvic Fixator$3,900
- Flexible Reamers$3,900
- Small DAF$3,900
- MiniRail System$3,900
- ProCallus Fixator$3,900
- Lapiplasty$2,427
- JUNIORTHO PLATING SYSTEM$1,300
- TL-HEX$863
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$863
- Taylor Spatial Frame$783
- TMC SPEEDMTP$400
How this compares
$7,687,401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 325 orthopaedic surgery providers in South Carolina.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Columbia
- Nicholas GrimaldiColumbia$203K
- Thomas GrossColumbia$34K
- Corey HamiltonColumbia$27K
- Logan HuffColumbia$26K
- Jeffrey HopkinsColumbia$24K
- Thomas JonesColumbia$17K
- Rachel GlennColumbia$15K
- Richard FrischMt Pleasant$1M
- Brent PonceCharleston$874K
- Chi LimSpartanburg$320K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.