Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Brian Buchanan

Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery Grand Rapids, MI Doctor of Podiatric Medicine

NPI 1689617011 CMS profile 75629

2770 E Beltline Ave Ne, Grand Rapids, MI 49525

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General payments

$10,478

62 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Brian Buchanan of Grand Rapids, MI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,478 across 62 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 84th percentile of Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery 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 $289 3
2024 General $360 4
2023 General $234 5
2022 General $1,340 4
2021 General $708 8
2020 General $215 2
2019 General $7,332 36

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Brian Buchanan
  • Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery median
  • Middle half of Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Brian Buchanan were reported at $289. Among 6,994 Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $424 and the middle half received between $139 and $1,306.

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Year Brian Buchanan Podiatrist, Foot & Ankle Surgery median Middle half National median
2019 $7,332 $389 $118–$1,406 $163
2020 $215 $191 $62–$691 $114
2021 $708 $329 $104–$1,341 $132
2022 $1,340 $419 $125–$1,611 $149
2023 $234 $377 $128–$1,164 $160
2024 $360 $394 $134–$1,168 $164
2025 $289 $424 $139–$1,306 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Arthrex, Inc. $4,910 16 payments
  2. Medwest Associates $2,527 4 payments
  3. Wright Medical Technology, Inc. $1,215 15 payments
  4. Stryker Corporation $996 10 payments
  5. Paragon 28, Inc. $278 5 payments
  6. Abbott Laboratories $140 2 payments
  7. Globus Medical, Inc. $113 1 payment
  8. PolyNovo North America LLC $112 1 payment
  9. Vericel Corporation $96 1 payment
  10. Orthofix Medical, Inc. $56 5 payments
  11. Other $33 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Education $5,315 4 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $2,686 50 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $1,476 7 payments
  4. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $1,000 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. INFINITY Foot And Ankle $759 8 payments
  2. ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE $358 4 payments
  3. PROSTEP $332 2 payments
  4. MICA $172 1 payment
  5. ACTISHIELD $161 1 payment
  6. HOFFMANN $151 2 payments
  7. Proclaim DRG IPG $128 1 payment
  8. INVISION $126 2 payments
  9. INFINITY Trauma & Extremities $123 1 payment
  10. CARTIVA $116 3 payments
  11. Other $799 23 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 · 10 drugs

Part D claims

308

Median for Podiatry: 160

Drug cost

$3,133

Median for Podiatry: $2,368

Branded share of claims

27.3%

Median for Podiatry: 12.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Gabapentin Generic 62 $1,290
Ciclopirox Generic 30 $512
Lidocaine Generic 14 $290
Celecoxib Generic 12 $243
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 57 $228
Oxycodone Hcl Generic 65 $205
Meloxicam Generic 28 $119
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potass Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav Brand 14 $114
Cephalexin Generic 13 $80
Ssd Silver Sulfadiazine Brand 13 $52

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 14,093 Part D prescribers listed as Podiatry; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 71 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$63,853

Of which drugs: $22

Medicare patients

258

Average age 72

Services billed

944

136 women, 122 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%
Arthritis 66%
Diabetes 47%
Ischemic heart disease 32%
Chronic kidney disease 31%
Depression 29%
Heart failure 20%
Atrial fibrillation 18%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg J1100 Office 22 253 $22

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.

Records

62 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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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