Edward Butler, MD
Procedural Dermatology · Charleston, SCNPI 1528048139
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 413 payments — averaging $20.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Sanofi$1K
- Novartis$946
- Johnson & Johnson$716
- Pfizer$646
- Incyte Corporation$634
- plus $3K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,04696%
- Education$3224%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 68 | $1,098 |
| Sanofi | 44 | $1,078 |
| Novartis | 43 | $946 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 33 | $716 |
| Pfizer | 39 | $646 |
| Incyte Corporation | 30 | $634 |
| Amgen | 29 | $630 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $403 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 19 | $393 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 18 | $295 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 12 | $203 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 11 | $199 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 9 | $194 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $188 |
| UCB, Inc. | 9 | $165 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 7 | $123 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $80 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $50 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $28 |
| Organon | 2 | $25 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Prugen, Inc. Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $12 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- ZORYVE$110
How this compares
Too few procedural dermatology providers in South Carolinato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab | 11 | $82,832 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 127 | $5,195 |
| Doxycycline Ir-DrDoxycycline Monohydrate | 12 | $4,474 |
| Tacrolimus | 26 | $3,019 |
| Pimecrolimus | 19 | $2,451 |
| Fluocinonide | 55 | $2,311 |
| Fluorouracil | 39 | $2,282 |
| Metronidazole | 33 | $1,887 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 125 | $1,705 |
| Ivermectin | 13 | $1,643 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 53 | $1,186 |
| Ketoconazole | 53 | $967 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 28 | $957 |
| Nystatin | 49 | $891 |
| Finasteride | 47 | $796 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other procedural dermatology in Charleston
- Paul RossCharleston$376
- John HumeniukGreer$470K
- Richard WhiteRock Hill$1K
- Timothy WoodallRock Hill$441
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.