Mary Butterfield
Internal Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1568470177
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.2% of the total across 295 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 26.8% of the total. Among internal medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 295 payments — averaging $28.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Lilly USA, LLC$961
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$915
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$814
- Johnson & Johnson$734
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$514
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2283%
- Food & beverage$7,97194%
- Education$2633%
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 | 64 | $2,266 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 28 | $961 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 28 | $915 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 22 | $814 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 51 | $734 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 25 | $514 |
| Sanofi | 15 | $377 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $294 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 13 | $268 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $228 |
| Amgen | 9 | $213 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $208 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 3 | $158 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 3 | $115 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $73 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $70 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $70 |
| Novartis | 3 | $61 |
| VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$8,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,216 internal medicine providers in Tennessee.
Other internal medicine in Nashville
- John AndersonNashville$1.5M
- Temidayo AbeNashville$113K
- Wayne RileyNashville$86K
- Leah CordovezNashville$64K
- Asad Al AboudNashville$44K
- Mark KouryNashville$41K
- David HeusinkveldNashville$24K
- Charlotte LohreyNashville$19K
- Malek Al-OmaryNashville$18K
- James GekasNashville$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.