Has William Smith, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $34,200 in general payments to William Smith, DO across 180 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 William Smith, DO 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 William Smith, DO 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.

William Smith, DO

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Ocean Springs, MSNPI 1790079325

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medtronic accounts for 66.8% of it on its own, with 34 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $19,992 and has fallen 71.5% since, to $5,697 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MS with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$34,200in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 180 payments — averaging $190.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$23K
Edwards Lifesciences$4K
Atricure, Inc.$2K
Endologix LLC$1K
Abiomed$1K
Baxter Healthcare$342
plus $2K from 29 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$18,79455%
Travel & lodging$7,47722%
Food & beverage$7,93023%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	45	$22,845
Edwards Lifesciences	15	$3,693
Atricure, Inc.	33	$2,435
Endologix LLC	6	$1,365
Abiomed	12	$1,322
Baxter Healthcare	3	$342
Clearflow Inc.	2	$279
Artivion, Inc.	3	$243
Boston Scientific	3	$242
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	3	$212
Zimmer Biomet	10	$161
Davol Inc.	3	$126
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$121
Livanova USA, Inc.	7	$113
Bard Access Systems, Inc.	2	$111
Kls-martin L.p.	3	$71
Corcym Inc	3	$61
CSL Behring	2	$51
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$40
Werfen USA LLC	2	$36
Chiesi USA, Inc.	2	$33
Stryker	1	$30
Advanced Respiratory, Inc	1	$26
Ambu Inc.	1	$26
Intuitive Surgical	2	$26
Bayer	1	$25
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$25
Biom'up France SAS	1	$24
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$23
Trevena, Inc.	1	$19
Pfizer	1	$18
Next Science LLC	1	$15
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$15
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$14
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$13

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.

How this compares

$34,200 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 42 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$62,587

Medicare patients

Services billed

165

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
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate	17	$104

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Ocean Springs

Robert JohnsonOcean Springs$3K
Hazem BarmadaOcean Springs$103
Lacy McClainHattiesburg$97K
Galen OhnmachtJackson$83K
Pierre de DelvaJackson$71K
Vishal SachdevTupelo$35K
David TaltonTupelo$23K
William HorsleyColumbus$16K
John CalhounJackson$12K
Walter SurowiecGulfport$12K

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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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