Steven Buda, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,000 of the $6,424 with a category attached, or 62.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 76.5% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,134 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $69 in 2025.
Across 64 payments — averaging $100.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Johnson & Johnson$282
- Stryker$175
- Smith+Nephew$166
- Davol Inc.$158
- Kerecis Limited$123
- plus $602 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3866%
- Food & beverage$2,03832%
- Education$4,00062%
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 | 10 | $4,917 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $282 |
| Stryker | 1 | $175 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $166 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $158 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $123 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $117 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $56 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Misonix Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $45 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $33 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $22 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $12 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $9 |
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$4,648
- PHASIX$119
How this compares
$6,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 197 surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $149 |
| Ibuprofen | 36 | $138 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 40 | $90 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Omaha
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
- Benjamin GramsOmaha$21K
- Thomas WhiteOmaha$19K
- Michael HoveyOmaha$19K
- Susanne SasseOmaha$16K
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.