Rustin Buffington
Pediatrics · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1720321946
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 247 payments — averaging $18.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$491
- Merck$449
- Tris Pharma Inc$434
- GSK$416
- Neos Therapeutics, LP$377
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$375
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,655100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 30 | $491 |
| Merck | 27 | $449 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 20 | $434 |
| GSK | 23 | $416 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 21 | $377 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $375 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $283 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 14 | $261 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $228 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 11 | $188 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 8 | $173 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 8 | $121 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $100 |
| LNHC, Inc | 4 | $94 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 4 | $81 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 4 | $80 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $54 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Novartis | 2 | $38 |
| Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p. | 2 | $26 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Aytu Biopharma, Inc. | 1 | $2 |
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
$4,655 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,964 pediatrics providers in Florida.
Other pediatrics in Jacksonville
- Edward ZigaJacksonville$218K
- Ryan CantvilleJacksonville$87K
- Ashraf AffanJacksonville$75K
- Lilia Roque-GuerreroMiami$39.1M
- Kimberly CruzPompano Beach$19.9M
- Teena HughesTampa$8.2M
- Lazaro NunezCoral Gables$4.6M
- Nora DanielMiami$3.4M
- Hector CorderoNaples$2.6M
- Randall ReeseGulf Breeze$2.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.