Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Bhuvin Buddhdev

Pulmonary Disease Phoenix, AZ Medical Doctor

NPI 1881907681 CMS profile 986885

500 W Thomas Rd Ste 500, Phoenix, AZ 85013

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General payments

$36,027

223 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$165,926 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2024–2025

Through program year 2025, Bhuvin Buddhdev of Phoenix, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $36,027 across 223 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $165,926 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 92nd percentile of Pulmonary Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $14,114 83
2024 General $8,308 59
2023 General $12,577 58
2022 General $371 7
2021 General $314 6
2020 General $17 1
2019 General $326 9

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Bhuvin Buddhdev
  • Pulmonary Disease median
  • Middle half of Pulmonary Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Bhuvin Buddhdev were reported at $14,114. Among 8,914 Pulmonary Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $500 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,893.

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Year Bhuvin Buddhdev Pulmonary Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $326 $377 $109–$1,340 $163
2020 $17 $230 $56–$907 $114
2021 $314 $269 $68–$1,072 $132
2022 $371 $390 $100–$1,457 $149
2023 $12,577 $419 $114–$1,659 $160
2024 $8,308 $476 $123–$1,818 $164
2025 $14,114 $500 $124–$1,893 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. United Therapeutics Corporation $20,047 82 payments
  2. Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $11,304 61 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $1,000 1 payment
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $535 5 payments
  5. Paragonix Technologies, Inc. $439 2 payments
  6. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $412 10 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $301 4 payments
  8. Astellas Pharma US Inc $219 5 payments
  9. Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. $215 2 payments
  10. Insmed, Inc. $212 9 payments
  11. Other $1,343 42 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $20,915 9 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $10,851 187 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $3,992 22 payments
  4. Education $269 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. OPSUMIT $10,255 50 payments
  2. TYVASO Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Pulmonary Hypertension with Interstitial Lung Disease $8,196 23 payments
  3. UPTRAVI $3,316 37 payments
  4. PAXLOVID $1,000 1 payment
  5. TYVASO Pah $980 14 payments
  6. Adempas $535 5 payments
  7. REMODULIN $486 6 payments
  8. LungGuard $439 2 payments
  9. LiverGuard $439 2 payments
  10. PancreasPak $439 2 payments
  11. Other $4,419 96 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 49 drugs

Part D claims

2,442

Median for Pulmonary Disease: 936

Drug cost

$3,413,062

Median for Pulmonary Disease: $487,987

Branded share of claims

23.8%

Median for Pulmonary Disease: 69.5%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Prevymis Letermovir Brand 71 $595,240
Opsumit Macitentan Brand 46 $580,720
Tyvaso Dpi Treprostinil Brand 22 $502,335
Ofev Nintedanib Esylate Brand 35 $484,270
Cresemba Isavuconazonium Sulfate Brand 58 $413,191
Adempas Riociguat Brand 14 $189,394
Pirfenidone Generic 41 $105,474
Gammaplex Immun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga 0-50 Brand 13 $81,458
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 77 $73,773
Itraconazole Generic 111 $68,168

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 49 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 9,233 Part D prescribers listed as Pulmonary Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 20 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$106,112

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

247

Average age 71

Services billed

1,123

105 women, 142 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Ischemic heart disease 65%
Chronic kidney disease 64%
COPD 62%
Diabetes 59%
Atrial fibrillation 47%
Arthritis 46%
Osteoporosis 38%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 21 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
OPSUMIT
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $4,367
$4,367 46 —
PAXLOVID
  • PFIZER INC. $1,000
$1,000 — —
UPTRAVI
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $497
  • Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. $108
$605 — —
Adempas
  • Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $200
$200 14 —
TYVASO
  • United Therapeutics Corporation $192
$192 22 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

223 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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