Who Paid My Doc
William Bugbee
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery La Jolla, CA Medical Doctor
NPI 1780642884 CMS profile 171952
10666 North Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla, CA 92037
General payments
$2,065,419
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$297,716
Research they led as principal investigator
$27,165
Through program year 2025, William Bugbee of La Jolla, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,065,419 across 334 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $27,165 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $297,716 across 8 holdings.
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 96th percentile of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
14 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $371,196 | 46 | |
| 2024 | General | $297,507 | 44 | |
| 2023 | General | $343,262 | 44 | |
| 2022 | General | $314,771 | 37 | |
| 2021 | General | $608,440 | 77 | |
| 2020 | General | $63,324 | 34 | |
| 2019 | General | $66,920 | 52 | |
| 2025 | Ownership | $60,191 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $27,505 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $27,505 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $27,505 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $27,505 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $27,505 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $100,000 | 1 |
Beside peers
- William Bugbee
- Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median
- Middle half of Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to William Bugbee were reported at $371,196. 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 | William Bugbee | Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $66,920 | $1,416 | $292–$9,336 | $163 |
| 2020 | $63,324 | $647 | $141–$6,474 | $114 |
| 2021 | $608,440 | $1,073 | $211–$6,497 | $132 |
| 2022 | $314,771 | $1,217 | $236–$6,299 | $149 |
| 2023 | $343,262 | $1,082 | $246–$6,818 | $160 |
| 2024 | $297,507 | $1,575 | $323–$8,944 | $164 |
| 2025 | $371,196 | $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 · 3 drugsPart D claims
201
Drug cost
$531
Branded share of claims
0%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amoxicillin | Generic | 146 | $284 | |
| Mupirocin | Generic | 37 | $199 | |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | Generic | 18 | $48 |
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 · 50 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$428,741
Medicare patients
799
Services billed
15,450
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 67% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 23% | |
| Osteoporosis | 22% | |
| Depression | 19% | |
| Cancer | 18% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 17% | |
| Diabetes | 15% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyaluronan or derivative, durolane, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg J7318 | Office | 11 | 842 | $4,200 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 1 mg J1010 | Office | 106 | 10,000 | $996 |
| Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg J1040 | Office | 37 | 43 | $246 |
| Injection, bupivicaine, not otherwise specified, 0.5 mg J0665 | Office | 124 | 2,195 | $21 |
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
334 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.