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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc

Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc reported $42,798.27 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 431 physicians and teaching hospitals across 431 transactions.

$42.8K
All-tracks total
431
Transactions
431
Recipients
+$8.9K
General Payments vs PY2023

Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc reported $42,798.27 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 431 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #1390 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (0.0% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $42,798.27, averaging $99.30 per recipient.

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CMS Sunshine Act warrant

Manufacturer smoky-mountain-surgical-llc Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc

$42.8K · #1390/1,925 · 0.0% industry · PY2024

  • TOT $42.8K
  • RANK #1390
  • SHARE 0.0%
  • TXN 431
  • RCP 431
  • CAT 3
  • GEN $42.8K
  • ΔGEN +$8.9K
  • TOP1 3.9%
  • PY 2024

Nearest volume peer: Fosun Pharma USA Inc. ($42.7K)

Oticon Medical, LLC$43.5KZap Surgical Systems, Inc.$43.0KSmoky Mountain Surgical Llc …$42.8KFosun Pharma USA Inc.$42.7KDENTSPLY DeTrey GmbH$42.4K
All-tracks payment totals near Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc (CMS Open Payments PY2024)

Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc sits among 1,925 manufacturers disclosing under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Volume peers below are nearest by all-tracks total, not corporate affiliates. Open the company rankings →

Release-over-release change

General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024

Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $8.9K (+26.2%) from PY2023 to PY2024.

How this year-over-year comparison is scoped

The comparison uses consecutive CMS program years only (current = prior + 1) from the manufacturer General Payments summary and excludes research and ownership or investment records. Non-consecutive year pairs are not shown as year-over-year change. This General Payments figure is not the all-tracks company total in the hero.

CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2023: SMOKY MOUNTAIN SURGICAL LLCPY2024: Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.

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General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024

Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total

PY2023$33.9KPY2024$42.8K
PY2023
$33,913.84
PY2024
$42,798.27

What the Data Shows for Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc

Rank #1390 of 1,925 companies in CMS Open Payments for 2024 belongs to Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc, which reported $42,798.27 across 431 transactions to 431 recipients - a comparatively small 0.0% slice of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year. Averages work out to $99.30 per transaction and $99.30 per recipient.

391 transactions worth $21.1K make "Food and Beverage" the top general-payment category in the 3-category breakdown below, 49.3% of General Payments (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).

General Payment Breakdown by Type

"Food and Beverage" leads Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc's 3-category general-payment breakdown at $21.1K, 49.3% of the reported total.

How Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc divides its payments

How the reported total splits across payment categories

1. Food and Beverage$21.1K2. Travel and Lodging$20.6K3. Space Rental or Facility …$1.1K
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Food and Beverage $21.1K 391
Travel and Lodging $20.6K 38
Space Rental or Facility Fees $1.1K 2

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $7,580.78 (17.7%) of $42,798.27 in this company's General Payments records across 183 recipients.

General Payments scope note

Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.

Largest General-Payment relationships for Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc

The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company

Devon Herrin$1.7KAshlee Simpson$1.7KEdward Akeyson$1.5KWilliam Yetter$1.5KRonald Christopher$1.3K
  1. 1

    Devon Herrin

    $1,657.78 across 5 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Ashlee Simpson

    $1,657.78 across 5 reported transactions

  3. 3

    Edward Akeyson

    $1,486.56 across 8 reported transactions

  4. 4

    William Yetter

    $1,466.76 across 5 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Ronald Christopher

    $1,311.90 across 7 reported transactions

Compare this company's payment profile with similarly sized manufacturers in the company comparison tool, and consult the methodology for the CMS source scope.

Similarly Concentrated Companies

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What HHI 2,500 means here

2,500 is the DOJ/FTC merger-guidelines threshold for "highly concentrated" markets; used here only as a familiar concentration reference, not a legal finding about Smoky Mountain Surgical Llc.

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Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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