Renee Buchta
Family · Anchorage, AKNPI 1881171015
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 82 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $747 and has fallen 89.3% since, to $80 in 2025.
Across 82 payments — averaging $28.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$548
- Novo Nordisk$392
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$387
- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.$143
- Lilly USA, LLC$139
- Medtronic$127
- plus $576 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,313100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 24 | $548 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $392 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $387 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $143 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $139 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $127 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $116 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 5 | $102 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 3 | $87 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Bayer | 2 | $43 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Gilead | 1 | $26 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$2,313 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 315 family providers in Alaska.
Other family in Anchorage
- Erica HeagyAnchorage$249K
- Trisha KernodleAnchorage$60K
- Marisha DietersAnchorage$6K
- Christine HooverAnchorage$6K
- Leigh KeeferAnchorage$5K
- Sara GeraciAnchorage$4K
- Christine SaganAnchorage$4K
- Bethany BuchananAnchorage$4K
- Natasha SherrillAnchorage$4K
- Katherine HardyAnchorage$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.