Who Paid My Doc
Paul Buzhardt
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Lafayette, LA Medical Doctor
NPI 1790003788 CMS profile 1394625
4212 W Congress St Ste 3100, Lafayette, LA 70506
General payments
$88,325
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$12,962
Through program year 2025, Paul Buzhardt of Lafayette, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $88,325 across 140 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $12,962 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 81st percentile of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic 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 | $35,093 | 47 | |
| 2024 | General | $42,711 | 44 | |
| 2023 | General | $4,525 | 25 | |
| 2022 | General | $5,152 | 6 | |
| 2021 | General | $292 | 4 | |
| 2020 | General | $271 | 7 | |
| 2019 | General | $281 | 7 |
Beside peers
- Paul Buzhardt
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median
- Middle half of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Paul Buzhardt were reported at $35,093. Among 1,079 Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery profiles paid that year, the median was $1,406 and the middle half received between $318 and $8,709.
Show as a table
| Year | Paul Buzhardt | Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $281 | $1,416 | $292–$9,336 | $163 |
| 2020 | $271 | $647 | $141–$6,474 | $114 |
| 2021 | $292 | $1,073 | $211–$6,497 | $132 |
| 2022 | $5,152 | $1,217 | $236–$6,299 | $149 |
| 2023 | $4,525 | $1,082 | $246–$6,818 | $160 |
| 2024 | $42,711 | $1,575 | $323–$8,944 | $164 |
| 2025 | $35,093 | $1,406 | $318–$8,709 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 11 drugsPart D claims
385
Drug cost
$2,153
Branded share of claims
19.5%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 59 | $433 | |
| Meloxicam | Generic | 160 | $388 | |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | Generic | 17 | $305 | |
| Celecoxib | Generic | 16 | $278 | |
| Methocarbamol | Generic | 21 | $142 | |
| Methylprednisolone | Generic | 23 | $136 | |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 16 | $119 | |
| Diclofenac Sodium | Generic | 11 | $104 | |
| Tramadol Hcl | Generic | 34 | $102 | |
| Cephalexin | Generic | 13 | $84 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 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 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 · 82 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$266,770
Medicare patients
521
Services billed
5,779
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 40% | |
| Diabetes | 33% | |
| Depression | 32% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 26% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 26% | |
| Osteoporosis | 22% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, preservative-free, extended-release, microsphere formulation, 1 mg J3304 | Office | 20 | 1,344 | $17,371 |
| Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7325 | Office | 21 | 1,760 | $12,164 |
| Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 | Office | 65 | 178 | $997 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 | Office | 17 | 22 | $154 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 12 | 640 | $66 |
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
140 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.