RxDoctor Payments Data

Glenn Buterbaugh, MD

Hand Surgery · Wexford, PANPI 1528020187

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $8,000 of the $10,263 with a category attached, or 77.9%. Arthrex accounts for 88.3% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $8,506 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $271 in 2025.

$10,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 101 payments — averaging $101.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Arthrex$9K
  • Stryker$262
  • US Implant Solutions, LLC$232
  • Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$218
  • Medartis Inc.$125
  • Endo USA, Inc.$89
  • plus $272 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$8,00078%
  • Travel & lodging$551%
  • Food & beverage$2,20822%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Arthrex57$9,065
Stryker7$262
US Implant Solutions, LLC1$232
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.15$218
Medartis Inc.1$125
Endo USA, Inc.5$89
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.3$50
Axogen3$47
Sonex Health, Inc.1$34
Zimmer Biomet1$34
Medline Industries LP1$24
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.1$22
Smith+Nephew1$19
AbbVie1$15
Nalu Medical, Inc.2$15
Amgen1$12

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.

How this compares

$10,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 110 hand surgery providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$489,379
Medicare patients
375
Services billed
3,517

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Methylprednisolone73$420
Ibuprofen11$137
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim12$42
Diazepam13$6

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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