Vincent Buddle, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Ocean, NJNPI 1366970709
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 53.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,304 and has fallen 59.2% since, to $1,754 in 2025.
Across 117 payments — averaging $122.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Medtronic$1K
- Liberty Surgical Inc.$1K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$1K
- VB Spine LLC$623
- Globus Medical$470
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,79540%
- Food & beverage$7,35251%
- Education$1,2178%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 50 | $7,679 |
| Medtronic | 19 | $1,491 |
| Liberty Surgical Inc. | 2 | $1,291 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 18 | $1,172 |
| VB Spine LLC | 3 | $623 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 5 | $470 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 3 | $364 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $276 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $164 |
| Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $130 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Alafair Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $73 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $59 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $47 |
| Ulrich Medical USA, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $40 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Theragen, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$3,225
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,986
- N/A$1,289
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$405
- CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM$289
- MONTEREY AL$279
- Mobi-C$276
- Other - Miscellaneous$263
- SERRATO$168
- STRYKER NAV3I$163
- XIA 3$163
- TRITANIUM$163
- INVICTUS OPEN$162
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$158
- ACP$156
- GAMMA$150
- NA$143
- RIALTO SI FUSION SYSTEM$142
- BIO DBM$133
- CAPRI CORPECTOMY CAGE SYSTEM$133
How this compares
$14,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 84 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in New Jersey.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naproxen | 34 | $1,091 |
| Methylprednisolone | 73 | $416 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 61 | $394 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $165 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Ocean
- Grigory GoldbergOcean$161K
- Douglas NowackiOcean$17K
- Kristen RadcliffSomers Point$390K
- James SanfilippoMoorestown$380K
- Justin KubeckToms River$309K
- Ramil BhatnagarManasquan$301K
- Jason LowensteinMorristown$294K
- Steven KirshnerMarlton$226K
- Gordon DonaldEatontown$167K
- Ki HwangWayne$147K
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.