Craig Buchman, MD
Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Saint Louis, MONPI 1538260120
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $332,471 of the $533,603 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Advanced Bionics, LLC accounts for 86.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 101 payments — averaging $5283.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Advanced Bionics, LLC$464K
- Cochlear Americas$55K
- Med-el Corporation$6K
- Iotamotion, Inc.$6K
- Cochlear Ltd$2K
- Grace Medical, Inc.$162
- plus $153 from 2 others
Across 31 payments — averaging $1541.92 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Cochlear Americas$48K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$332,47162%
- Consulting fees$162,74330%
- Grants$6,0001%
- Travel & lodging$27,5785%
- Food & beverage$4,8101%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Bionics, LLC | 23 | $463,752 |
| Cochlear Americas | 62 | $55,491 |
| Med-el Corporation | 6 | $6,268 |
| Iotamotion, Inc. | 3 | $6,224 |
| Cochlear Ltd | 2 | $1,552 |
| Grace Medical, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $136 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- HIRES ULTRA CI HIFOCUS MS ELECTRODE$237,115
- HiResolution Bionic Ear System$226,275
- Baha$56,084
- Cochlear Nucleus CI632 cochlear implant with Slim Modiolar electrode$54,025
- OSIA OSI300 IMPLANT$53,903
- MED-EL Maestro Cochlear Implant System$6,000
- iotaSOFT Insertion System$4,375
- Nucleus$1,901
- iotaSOFT$1,849
- Cochlear$561
- Baha BI300 implant 4 mm$122
- Cochlear Osia OSI200 Implant$122
- VIBRANT Soundbridge Middle Ear Implant and BONEBRIDGE System$115
- ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY KIT$108
How this compares
Too few plastic surgery within the head & neck providers in Missourito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ofloxacin | 30 | $765 |
| Triamterene-HydrochlorothiazidTriamterene/Hydrochlorothiazid | 15 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery within the head & neck in Saint Louis
- Laxmeesh NayakSaint Louis$71K
- James BoydSaint Louis$2K
- Mark PackerSaint Louis$2K
- John ChiCreve Coeur$11K
- John BarclayLiberty$1K
- Gregory BranhamCreve Coeur$1K
- Michael BaysBranson$460
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.