Has Wayne Bruffett, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,826 in general payments to Wayne Bruffett, MD across 64 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Wayne Bruffett, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Wayne Bruffett, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Wayne Bruffett, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · North Little Rock, ARNPI 1952389280

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,400 of the $3,826 with a category attached, or 62.7%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spine Wave, Inc. at 52.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,422 and has fallen 95.4% since, to $111 in 2024.

$3,826in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $59.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spine Wave, Inc.$2K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$900
Johnson & Johnson$484
Medtronic$182
Globus Medical$99
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$56
plus $92 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,40063%
Food & beverage$1,42637%

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
Spine Wave, Inc.	24	$2,013
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$900
Johnson & Johnson	23	$484
Medtronic	3	$182
Globus Medical	6	$99
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.	2	$56
Spinal Elements, Inc.	2	$34
Amgen	2	$32
Si-bone, Inc.	1	$26

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.

Spinal Implants$1,500

How this compares

Too few orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Arkansasto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$288,635

Medicare patients

416

Services billed

1,307

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	50	$844
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	34	$565
Gabapentin	17	$185
Methylprednisolone	21	$144
Meloxicam	47	$137
Tizanidine Hcl	11	$117

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in North Little Rock

Jared SealeLittle Rock$1M
Gannon RandolphBentonville$39K
Mark FegerConway$13K
Patrick ChanSearcy$8K
Richard PeekLittle Rock$955
Edward SaerLittle Rock$364
Travis RichardsonParagould$263
David ArnoldConway$174

See the full list for Arkansas →

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.

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