Has Robert Butler, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,012 in general payments to Robert Butler, MD across 63 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 Robert Butler, MD 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 Robert Butler, MD 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.

Robert Butler, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Starkville, MSNPI 1194752246

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,012in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 63 payments — averaging $79.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Smith+Nephew$3K
Stryker$893
Linvatec Corporation$216
Sanara Medtech Inc.$191
Avanos Medical$189
Johnson & Johnson$179
plus $424 from 8 others

$1,796in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $449.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,78036%
Food & beverage$3,23264%

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
Smith+Nephew	22	$2,920
Stryker(2 entities)	20	$893
Linvatec Corporation	2	$216
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$191
Avanos Medical	3	$189
Johnson & Johnson	3	$179
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$154
Nextstep Arthropedix, LLC	1	$106
Encore Medical, LP	1	$48
Medtronic	2	$28
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	2	$28
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$22
Vericel Corporation	1	$21
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	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.

Healicoil$975
OR3O$636
Anthology$636
Q-FIX$607
CORI$462
Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$459
POLARCUP$427
Hat-Trick$313
TRIATHLON$259
POLAR3$210
SYNERGY$208
Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$148
ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$140
BioBrace 23mm$135
CellerateRx$120
iNSitu Hip System$106
MAKO$104
IM NAILS$103

How this compares

$5,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 170 orthopaedic surgery providers in Mississippi.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$88,966

Medicare patients

211

Services billed

503

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
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	174	$1,140
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	64	$769
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	64	$628
Gabapentin	48	$513
Meloxicam	225	$418
Clindamycin Hcl	11	$161
Methylprednisolone	15	$93
Ibuprofen	13	$87
Tramadol Hcl	14	$36
IbuIbuprofen	14	$11

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Starkville

Matthew GravesJackson$1.2M
Edward HobgoodJackson$392K
George van OstenTupelo$322K
Hanna MitiasNew Albany$249K
Stephen SouthworthTupelo$160K
Jeff AlmandJackson$137K
Jamey BurrowJackson$130K
Robert MehrleJackson$125K
Spencer MontgomeryJackson$90K
Larry FieldJackson$88K

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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.

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