Michael Buckmire, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · Mesa, AZNPI 1316918766
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $31,000 of the $35,544 with a category attached, or 87.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.6% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $22,694 and has fallen 89.9% since, to $2,300 in 2024.
Across 68 payments — averaging $522.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$35K
- Johnson & Johnson$241
- Stryker$186
- Davol Inc.$167
- THD America, Inc.$114
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$60
- plus $94 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$510%
- Travel & lodging$1,6095%
- Food & beverage$2,8758%
- Education$31,00087%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 53 | $34,683 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $241 |
| Stryker | 2 | $186 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $167 |
| THD America, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $60 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $31 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $24 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$32,271
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- Echelon Flex$143
- PHASIX$116
How this compares
$35,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 50 colon & rectal surgery providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocortisone | 21 | $311 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 14 | $15 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in Mesa
- Deborah KellerScottsdale$195K
- Eugene KimPhoenix$189K
- Sushil PandeySurprise$125K
- Hekmat HakimanChandler$57K
- Ashley CasanoPhoenix$48K
- Debora Fox-McclaryPhoenix$41K
- Nasrin GhalyaiePhoenix$22K
- Clarence ClarkChandler$19K
- Lynn CalcoteScottsdale$19K
- Neeraj SinghGlendale$19K
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.