Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Christopher Smith

Neurology Gainesville, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1144724477 CMS profile 11304666

1315 Jesse Jewell Pkwy Ne Ste 300, Gainesville, GA 30501

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General payments

$5,045

216 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Christopher Smith of Gainesville, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $5,045 across 216 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 66th percentile of Neurology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,098 90
2024 General $1,850 79
2023 General $882 37
2022 General $59 3
2021 General $156 7

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christopher Smith
  • Neurology median
  • Middle half of Neurology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Smith were reported at $2,098. Among 11,022 Neurology profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $118 and $2,344.

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Year Christopher Smith Neurology median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $474 $118–$2,177 $163
2020 $0 $367 $82–$2,309 $114
2021 $156 $438 $104–$2,547 $132
2022 $59 $442 $103–$2,388 $149
2023 $882 $464 $119–$2,312 $160
2024 $1,850 $468 $119–$2,323 $164
2025 $2,098 $457 $118–$2,344 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,783 119 payments
  2. UCB, Inc. $467 16 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $419 26 payments
  4. SK Life Science, Inc. $153 5 payments
  5. Argenx US, Inc. $153 6 payments
  6. Lundbeck LLC $129 5 payments
  7. Biogen, Inc. $121 5 payments
  8. Neurelis, Inc. $101 4 payments
  9. EMD Serono, Inc. $96 3 payments
  10. Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $79 3 payments
  11. Other $543 24 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $5,045 216 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. ALLODERM $1,859 52 payments
  2. QULIPTA $558 47 payments
  3. NURTEC ODT $419 26 payments
  4. UBRELVY $408 36 payments
  5. ZAVZPRET $291 19 payments
  6. BOTOX $204 10 payments
  7. Fintepla $141 5 payments
  8. Briviact $130 5 payments
  9. VYEPTI $129 5 payments
  10. Nayzilam $123 4 payments
  11. Other $1,656 74 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 21 drugs

Part D claims

876

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$201,998

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

11.9%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Ingrezza Valbenazine Tosylate Brand 15 $171,058
Nurtec Odt Rimegepant Sulfate Brand 17 $18,975
Memantine Hcl Generic 197 $4,053
Gabapentin Generic 170 $1,719
Levetiracetam Generic 80 $1,230
Lacosamide Generic 13 $992
Donepezil Hcl Generic 75 $616
Propranolol Hcl Er Propranolol Hcl Brand 24 $521
Primidone Generic 34 $426
Duloxetine Hcl Generic 28 $417

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 21 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 34 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$79,381

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

340

Average age 74

Services billed

1,906

193 women, 147 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 59%
Ischemic heart disease 37%
Depression 36%
Diabetes 31%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Heart failure 24%
Alzheimer's or dementia 21%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 20 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
UBRELVY
  • AbbVie, Inc. $139
$139 — —
NURTEC ODT
  • PFIZER INC. $128
$128 17 —
QULIPTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $110
$110 — —
BOTOX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $101
$101 — —
ZAVZPRET
  • PFIZER INC. $85
$85 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

216 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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