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

PAUL J SMELTER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Family Medicine

NPI
1528078714
CMS profile
1232236
Location
MESQUITE, TX

General Payments · PY2018–2019

$2,241.89

  • Reported across 131 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2019

$511.42

33 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

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $511.42 33

By paying entity

PY2019 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,730.47 98
PY2019 $511.42 33

Payment records · PY2019 (33)

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

Program year 2019 2018 Record-level detail is published for PY2019; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Allergan Inc. $14.35 01/18/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 671160513 CMS
Allergan Inc. $13.07 01/29/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 671160517 CMS
Amarin Pharma Inc. $14.73 02/26/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 699092071 CMS
Amarin Pharma Inc. $13.68 04/01/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 699112043 CMS
Amarin Pharma Inc. $18.29 05/30/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 699150595 CMS
Amgen Inc. $11.24 01/22/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859691 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.56 02/11/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859685 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.07 02/21/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859695 CMS
Amgen Inc. $4.25 03/28/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859689 CMS
Amgen Inc. $22.72 05/06/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859681 CMS
Amgen Inc. $21.97 05/08/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859699 CMS
Amgen Inc. $24.83 06/12/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 662859701 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $14.52 01/23/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685155609 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.80 03/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685200641 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $13.68 04/25/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685859731 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $11.90 05/16/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685610969 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $15.56 06/23/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 685514849 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $18.81 01/09/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 700140045 CMS
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $14.65 05/13/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 700140043 CMS
Genentech USA, Inc. $16.92 03/21/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 681303755 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17.55 02/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659300935 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $12.64 06/26/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 659300937 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $11.85 03/07/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695310833 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $12.73 06/27/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 695626359 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $19.74 06/19/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 660142985 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $13.44 01/14/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 668794473 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.25 02/14/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 668794475 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.47 03/27/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704174133 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $15.24 04/22/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704174137 CMS
Novo Nordisk Inc $16.61 05/20/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 704174146 CMS
PFIZER INC. $19.77 02/28/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 673244513 CMS
Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $16.23 04/03/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 684942783 CMS
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $12.30 04/15/2019 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 694011617 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
2018, 2019
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2019_P01232026_01102026.csv

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