Lynn Buckner, MD
Surgery · Decatur, ALNPI 1386694263
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.8%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 42 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,951 and has fallen 91.6% since, to $497 in 2025.
Across 189 payments — averaging $53.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$6K
- Lemaitre Vascular, Inc.$437
- Davol Inc.$356
- Smith+Nephew$317
- Polynovo North America LLC$265
- Kerecis Limited$258
- plus $2K from 37 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,16112%
- Food & beverage$4,91649%
- Education$4,00040%
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.
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.
- DAVINCI XI$4,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,335
- Phasix Mesh$206
- Venclose Maven Catheter$141
- VALVULOTOM$108
How this compares
$10,077 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 14 | $754 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 66 | $253 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $159 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 20 | $139 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 15 | $105 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 15 | $75 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 40 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Decatur
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
- Jayme LockeBirmingham$63K
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.