Covered recipient · General Payments record
LAUREN WHITTON BUFFINGTON
Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Nurse Practitioner Gerontology
General Payments · PY2021–2024
$3,023.67
- Reported across 160 records
- CMS publication 2026-01-23
Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.
How these totals are calculated
- The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
- General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
- Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
- Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.
By nature of payment
PY2024 · sorted by reported total
| Nature of payment | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $853.73 | 43 |
By paying entity
PY2024 · sorted by reported total
| Paying entity | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|
| PFIZER INC. | $190.36 | 11 |
| ABBVIE INC. | $135.97 | 6 |
| Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation | $98.84 | 5 |
| ABIOMED | $83.93 | 4 |
| Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc | $58.91 | 3 |
| NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION | $41.84 | 2 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | $35.33 | 2 |
| Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | $34.79 | 1 |
| Amgen Inc. | $34.53 | 2 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | $32.36 | 2 |
| Medtronic, Inc. | $28.15 | 1 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | $24.04 | 1 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | $20.80 | 1 |
| E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | $20.00 | 1 |
| Acerta Pharma LLC | $13.88 | 1 |
By program year
All program years on this page · sorted by year
Payment records · PY2024 (43)
Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS
Source & provenance
- Dataset
- CMS Open Payments — General Payments
- Publisher of source data
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- CMS publication date
- 2026-01-23
- Program years on this page
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Generated from
- OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv
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