Dustin Buller
Sports Medicine · East Stroudsburg, PANPI 1982165791
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $25,833 of the $38,439 with a category attached, or 67.2%. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Arthrex at 59.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $28,546 and has fallen 70.9% since, to $8,294 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 115 payments — averaging $334.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$23K
- Smith+Nephew$8K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc.$1K
- Shoulder Innovations, Inc.$645
- Stryker$600
- plus $2K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$25,83367%
- Travel & lodging$5,94615%
- Food & beverage$5,43614%
- Education$1,2003%
- Gifts$240%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 22 | $22,938 |
| Smith+Nephew | 40 | $7,989 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 21 | $3,550 |
| Gotham Surgical Solutions & Devices, Inc. | 1 | $1,200 |
| Shoulder Innovations, Inc. | 3 | $645 |
| Stryker | 6 | $600 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $496 |
| Saxum Surgical, Inc. | 4 | $230 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $200 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 2 | $171 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $122 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $117 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $75 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $16 |
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.
- NA$1,473
- RIGIDLOOP$993
- Q-FIX$616
- InSet System$549
- Journey II$361
- Accu-pass$264
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$248
- CAP-FIX$247
- REAL INTELLIGENCE$180
- Legion Revision$180
- RI.HIP NAVIGATION$180
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$167
- AEQUALIS PERFORM$167
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$167
- ALPHAVENT$161
- MAKO$160
- MACI$150
- TFN-Advance$150
- Multiloc$150
- TRUESPAN ORTHOCORD$145
How this compares
$38,439 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 311 sports medicine providers in Pennsylvania.
Other sports medicine in East Stroudsburg
- Sam AkhavanPittsburgh$2.2M
- Albert LinPittsburgh$460K
- Sommer HammoudPhiladelphia$238K
- Theresa PazionisPhiladelphia$235K
- Matthew Varacallodu Bois$129K
- Matthew BestAllentown$77K
- Marco AlcalaCanonsburg$54K
- Brandon TaubergWashington$54K
- Alexander JohnsonBethlehem$51K
- Tyler HauerPittsburgh$48K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.