Device Spine

Buttress Plate

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Buttress Plate. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$67Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
2clinicians with associated payments
1company reporting

By year

2023 $38K
2024 $29K

Payments reported as associated with Buttress Plate, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Orthopaedic Surgery of The Spine $52K
Orthopaedic Surgery $15K

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Buttress Plate

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Buttress Plate. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Stephen Tolhurst Flower Mound, TX Orthopaedic Surgery of The Spine $52,176.82
Christopher Harrod Baton Rouge, LA Orthopaedic Surgery $14,554.20

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.