Stephanie Buza
Sports Medicine · New York, NYNPI 1235574435
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,500 of the $16,919 with a category attached, or 79.8%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 81.3% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $14,304 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $28 in 2025.
Across 38 payments — averaging $445.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$14K
- Stryker$2K
- Arthrex$680
- Suvon Surgical LLC$626
- Si-bone, Inc.$122
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,2167%
- Food & beverage$2,20313%
- Education$13,50080%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $13,763 |
| Stryker | 16 | $1,727 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $680 |
| Suvon Surgical LLC | 3 | $626 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
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.
- NANO TACT FLEX$272
- HIP ARTHROSCOPY ACCESS & INSTRUMENTATION SET$253
- INSPACE$243
- SALVATION$157
- NANOTACK FLEX$156
- ICONIX$153
- HIPCHECK$133
- LENS 4K$133
- Camera Heads$133
- CAP-FIX$133
- PINK HIP KIT$133
- WEREWOLF$133
- CINCHLOCK$128
- iFuse Implant$122
How this compares
$16,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 403 sports medicine providers in New York.
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.
Other sports medicine in New York
- Gregory DifeliceNew York$1.8M
- Theodore BlaineNew York$765K
- Robert MeislinNew York$720K
- Danyal NawabiNew York$592K
- Riley WilliamsNew York$512K
- Bryan KellyNew York$409K
- Samuel TaylorNew York$255K
- Eric StraussNew York$241K
- Michael FuNew York$210K
- Michael AlaiaNew York$207K
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.