Matthew Butterfield, MD
Sports Medicine · Fridley, MNNPI 1629209598
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $2,552 of the $3,442 with a category attached, or 74.1%. Gemini Medical LLC accounts for 74.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,695 and has fallen 76.6% since, to $397 in 2025.
Across 19 payments — averaging $181.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gemini Medical LLC$3K
- Smith+Nephew$516
- Stryker$177
- Foundation Medical, LLC$138
- Catalyst Orthoscience$30
- Vericel Corporation$19
- plus $10 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$89026%
- Education$2,55274%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini Medical LLC | 3 | $2,552 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $516 |
| Stryker | 4 | $177 |
| Foundation Medical, LLC | 1 | $138 |
| Catalyst Orthoscience | 1 | $30 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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
$3,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 156 sports medicine providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 76 | $235 |
| Methylprednisolone | 17 | $125 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 13 | $44 |
| Amoxicillin | 33 | $38 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Fridley
- Taylor RidleyFridley$46K
- Jason BarryFridley$4K
- Robert LapradeEdina$1.1M
- Jack SkendzelWoodbury$103K
- Ryan FaderEdina$78K
- Christopher LapradeEagan$64K
- Julie DoddsFairmont$61K
- Jeremiah JohnsonEagan$54K
- Saurabh RawallMinneapolis$53K
- Alicia HarrisonMinneapolis$46K
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.