Warren Butterfield, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · St George, UTNPI 1891819843
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,368 of the $3,860 with a category attached, or 61.4%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Smith+Nephew at 36.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,589 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $40 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in UT, where the typical reported total is $5,401.
Across 32 payments — averaging $120.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Imbed Biosciences Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Stryker$89
- Arthrex$40
- Merck$32
- plus $71 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,36861%
- Food & beverage$1,49139%
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 | 7 | $1,408 |
| Imbed Biosciences Inc. | 11 | $1,147 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $1,072 |
| Stryker | 2 | $89 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $32 |
| The Orthopaedic Implant Company | 1 | $29 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $28 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- Taylor Spatial Frame$1,221
- VA-LCP$915
How this compares
$3,860 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 221 orthopaedic surgery providers in Utah.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 41 | $753 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $35 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in St George
- Zachary LeitzeSt George$809K
- Robert JamiesonSt George$157K
- Edward PrinceSt George$45K
- Darin AllredSt George$34K
- Alan SutakSt George$26K
- Hugh WestMurray$14.2M
- Aaron HofmannSalt Lake City$10.7M
- Thomas CaltonWashington Terrace$3.5M
- Jeremy GilillandSalt Lake City$2.9M
- Joshua HickmanBountiful$2.7M
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.