Has Matthew Brayton received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,170 in general payments to Matthew Brayton across 129 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Matthew Brayton did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Matthew Brayton come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Matthew Brayton

Nurse Practitioner · Crossville, TNNPI 1700010816

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,170in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 129 payments — averaging $24.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$318
AstraZeneca$291
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$220
Amgen$175
Johnson & Johnson$136
Incyte Corporation$111
plus $2K from 42 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1756%
Food & beverage$2,75087%
Education$2458%

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
Novartis	15	$318
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	10	$291
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	9	$220
Amgen	1	$175
Johnson & Johnson	5	$136
Incyte Corporation	4	$111
GSK	5	$104
Bristol Myers Squibb	5	$98
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$95
Pfizer	4	$94
Merck	4	$87
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$77
Seagen Inc.	1	$76
Bayer	3	$74
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	3	$71
Eisai Inc.	3	$68
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$67
Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$67
AbbVie	3	$66
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	4	$62
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$57
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$56
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$53
Genmab U.S., Inc.	2	$51
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$44
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$43
Array Biopharma Inc	2	$37
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	2	$37
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$33
Exelixis Inc.	2	$33
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$30
Legend Biotech USA Inc.	1	$27
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$23
Accord Healthcare, Inc.	1	$23
Sanofi	1	$22
Sobi, Inc	1	$21
Tersera Therapeutics LLC	1	$20
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$20
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	1	$19
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$19
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$19
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$19
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$19
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$19
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.	1	$18
Novocure Inc.	1	$17
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$17
Geron Corporation	1	$15

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.

Prolia$175

How this compares

$3,170 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,662 nurse practitioner providers in Tennessee.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Tamoxifen Citrate	15	$398
Anastrozole	15	$328
Ondansetron Hcl	12	$168

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Susan UtleyNashville$194K
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Erica HembreeKnoxville$125K
Brooke FaughtNashville$89K
Lauren WelchNashville$71K
Cara StoutKingsport$71K
S Marie HamiltonOoltewah$64K
Cynthia WilsonChattanooga$62K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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