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

Leonard Kibuule

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Houston, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1962629543 CMS profile 362334

1900 North Loop W Ste 670, Houston, TX 77018

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General payments

$621,134

821 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

$47,375 paid to institutions, not to them · program year 2020

Through program year 2025, Leonard Kibuule of Houston, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $621,134 across 821 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $47,375 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 91st percentile of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine 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 $3,516 34
2024 General $27,976 57
2023 General $33,500 91
2022 General $147,132 143
2021 General $93,655 150
2020 General $122,926 122
2019 General $192,429 224

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Leonard Kibuule
  • Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median
  • Middle half of Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Leonard Kibuule were reported at $3,516. Among 1,704 Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine profiles paid that year, the median was $2,061 and the middle half received between $347 and $14,651.

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Year Leonard Kibuule Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine median Middle half National median
2019 $192,429 $2,106 $337–$18,608 $163
2020 $122,926 $1,213 $156–$15,082 $114
2021 $93,655 $1,834 $271–$15,617 $132
2022 $147,132 $2,015 $320–$17,036 $149
2023 $33,500 $1,925 $336–$14,599 $160
2024 $27,976 $2,110 $341–$12,483 $164
2025 $3,516 $2,061 $347–$14,651 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic USA, Inc. $311,529 319 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $271,992 339 payments
  3. NuVasive, Inc. $18,253 33 payments
  4. Relievant Medsystems, Inc. $13,110 19 payments
  5. Stryker Corporation $1,201 17 payments
  6. DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. $962 15 payments
  7. Globus Medical, Inc. $958 30 payments
  8. Nexxt Spine LLC $530 3 payments
  9. Xtant Medical Inc $323 3 payments
  10. Nevro Corp. $312 6 payments
  11. Other $1,963 37 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $396,338 62 payments
  2. Consulting Fee $147,123 47 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $52,658 250 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $25,015 462 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System Tl $98,212 101 payments
  2. MAZOR X SYSTEM $90,719 104 payments
  3. PIVOX Oblique Lateral Spinal System Tl $66,646 67 payments
  4. O-ARM-ST $58,882 36 payments
  5. CD HORIZON SPINAL SYSTEM $42,124 19 payments
  6. CD HORIZON $41,189 34 payments
  7. DIVERGENCE-L $35,862 22 payments
  8. CLYDESDALE $33,944 46 payments
  9. MazorX - Renaissance $25,819 25 payments
  10. Mazor X Stealth Edition $12,104 13 payments
  11. Other $97,255 358 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 · 3 drugs

Part D claims

74

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 203

Drug cost

$504

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: $1,433

Branded share of claims

23%

Median for Orthopedic Surgery: 11.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 17 $247
Methylprednisolone Generic 36 $192
Tramadol Hcl Generic 21 $66

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 18,934 Part D prescribers listed as Orthopedic Surgery; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 29 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$32,461

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

59

Average age 72

Services billed

151

31 women, 28 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 75%
Diabetes 53%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Atrial fibrillation 22%
COPD 22%
Depression 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

821 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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