Has William Bugbee, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,152,775 in general payments to William Bugbee, MD across 350 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 William Bugbee, 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 William Bugbee, 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.

William Bugbee, MD

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery · la Jolla, CANPI 1780642884

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,152,775in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 350 payments — averaging $6150.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Encore Medical, LP$619K
Orthalign Inc$460K
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.$357K
Smith+Nephew$287K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$246K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$76K
plus $108K from 14 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$967,33547%
Consulting fees$391,51119%
Speaking & faculty fees$162,1488%
Travel & lodging$24,4211%
Food & beverage$5,2080%
Entertainment$190%
Other$514,77925%

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
Encore Medical, LP	88	$618,698
Orthalign Inc	34	$459,823
Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc.	59	$357,490
Smith+Nephew	49	$286,625
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	18	$245,950
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	35	$76,436
Arthrex	24	$43,280
Overture Orthopaedics	3	$32,964
Moximed, Inc	3	$16,200
Bioventus LLC	9	$9,973
Insight Medical Systems, Inc.	4	$2,674
Davol Inc.	2	$1,121
Zimmer Biomet	6	$603
Aesculap Biologics, LLC	3	$439
Stryker	4	$228
Vericel Corporation	1	$105
Johnson & Johnson	3	$67
Solventum Corporation	2	$48
Spinesmith Holdings, LLC	2	$27
Ferring Pharmaceuticals 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.

Journey II$438,080
ORTHALIGN PLUS$416,949
ATTUNE$71,928
PINNACLE$49,147
ACTIS$49,147
DJO SURGICAL$40,621
DJO Surgical TaperFill Hip System$30,701
DJO Surgical Empowr Knee System$17,923
MISHA KNEE SYSTEM, SMALL, LEFT$16,200
OrthAlign Plus System$15,344
DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$12,728
DJO Surgical FMP Acetabular System$8,100
DJO Surgical Exprt Revision Knee$6,848
HP PARTIAL$5,850
JII Unicondylar Knee System$3,152
ARVIS$2,649
TRUMATCH$1,932
Journey II XR$446
NOVOCART 3D$439
OVERTURETI$260

How this compares

$2,152,775 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 136 adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$553,386

Medicare patients

799

Services billed

15,450

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
Amoxicillin	146	$284
Mupirocin	37	$199
Doxycycline Hyclate	18	$48

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other adult reconstructive orthopaedic surgery in la Jolla

William MaloneyStanford$11.1M
James CaillouetteNewport Beach$4.8M
William LongLos Angeles$2.8M
John DearbornMenlo Park$2.5M
James HuddlestonStanford$2.2M
Alexander SahFremont$1.8M
John DianaNapa$1.1M
Louis KwongTorrance$958K
Derek AmanatullahStanford$935K
Thomas DonaldsonColton$893K

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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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