Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

J RUTH SMITH

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner Primary Care

NPI
1467178830
CMS profile
11398888
Location
DENTON, NC

General Payments · PY2022–2024

$898.76

  • Reported across 39 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$585.35

24 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $585.35 24

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2022 $12.16 1
PY2023 $301.25 14
PY2024 $585.35 24

Payment records · PY2024 (24)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 20222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Astellas Pharma US Inc $13.57 03/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1139479718 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.55 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105534910 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $16.55 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105794646 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $114.30 02/01/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105853044 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $26.64 02/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105544541 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.97 04/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105474813 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $18.98 05/13/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104207491 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $57.66 06/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105505330 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20.07 06/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105658922 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $20.52 07/08/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105458525 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.25 08/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1104513604 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $19.12 12/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1105512219 CMS
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. $26.69 07/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1148169091 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $16.24 04/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135682751 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $19.21 08/23/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135641694 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $18.41 10/24/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135703593 CMS
Lilly USA, LLC $16.77 12/05/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1135684433 CMS
Lundbeck LLC $15.46 06/27/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1146091633 CMS
Mylan Specialty L.P. $17.46 06/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147379279 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $18.51 09/12/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100480235 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $20.51 11/07/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1100355254 CMS
PFIZER INC. $21.10 10/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130882804 CMS
PFIZER INC. $23.76 12/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1131646326 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $14.05 06/03/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1153551511 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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