Has Derek Buck, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,169 in general payments to Derek Buck, MD across 132 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Derek Buck, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Derek Buck, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Derek Buck, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Bluefield, VANPI 1790951432

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,958 of the $7,169 with a category attached, or 69.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 53.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,859 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $477 in 2025. Among physical medicine & rehabilitation clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$7,169in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $54.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$4K
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$3K
Johnson & Johnson$73
Trice Medical, Inc.$67
Stryker$56
Nalu Medical, Inc.$53
plus $114 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,21131%
Food & beverage$4,95869%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Boston Scientific	102	$3,843
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	13	$2,963
Johnson & Johnson	5	$73
Trice Medical, Inc.	1	$67
Stryker	2	$56
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$53
Abbott	1	$24
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$19
Medtronic	1	$17
Vertex	1	$16
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$16
Avanos Medical	1	$12
Pfizer	1	$11

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.

Intracept$10,572
Infinion 16$105

How this compares

$7,169 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 231 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$123,455

Medicare patients

384

Services billed

1,338

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	78	$1,026
Pregabalin	26	$847
Celecoxib	20	$394
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	24	$335
Oxycodone Hcl	55	$254
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	13	$171
Gabapentin	34	$164
Methylprednisolone	23	$155
Diclofenac Sodium	11	$153
Tizanidine Hcl	27	$146
Tramadol Hcl	26	$96
Meloxicam	16	$36

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Bluefield

Kovosh DastanWinchester$23K
Stephanie ClopAldie$16K
Daniel HellerWarrenton$12K
Amanda MoranNorfolk$9K
Abraham CherrickAlexandria$9K
Mir AliRichmond$8K
Danielle CherrickMc Lean$6K
Christopher TrowerVirginia Beach$6K
Harnek BajajRichmond$6K
Tochi NworuFairfax$5K

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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.

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