Has William Mayfield, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,295 in general payments to William Mayfield, MD across 117 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 William Mayfield, 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 William Mayfield, 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.

William Mayfield, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Smyrna, TNNPI 1568435808

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,615 of the $3,295 with a category attached, or 79.4%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,017.

$3,295in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 117 payments — averaging $28.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$605
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$560
Smith+Nephew$418
Zimmer Biomet$259
Alpha Orthopedic Systems$223
Amgen$168
plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$59318%
Food & beverage$2,61579%
Education$863%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	3	$605
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	38	$560
Smith+Nephew	9	$418
Zimmer Biomet	2	$259
Alpha Orthopedic Systems	2	$223
Amgen	9	$168
Stryker	6	$164
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	10	$164
Radius Health, Inc.	8	$114
Theragen, Inc.	3	$58
Orthogenrx Inc.	3	$56
DJO, LLC	2	$49
Skeletal Dynamics Inc	1	$47
Johnson & Johnson	2	$46
Music City Medical Technologies, LLC	2	$41
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$40
Abbott	1	$34
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$32
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	3	$32
Augmedics Inc.	1	$29
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$27
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	2	$26
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$21
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	1	$20
Avanos Medical	1	$19
GSK	1	$16
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$14
Bioventus LLC	1	$13

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

$3,295 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 381 orthopaedic surgery providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$91,521

Medicare patients

175

Services billed

4,212

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	129	$1,109
Diclofenac Sodium	24	$955
Celecoxib	52	$705
Meloxicam	151	$393
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	36	$335
Tramadol Hcl	70	$178
Ibuprofen	16	$113
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	20	$92

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Smyrna

Paul BradyKnoxville$20M
Edwin SpencerKnoxville$2.5M
Jesse DotyChattanooga$2.3M
Thomas ThrockmortonGermantown$1.7M
Alton HunterColumbia$820K
Jefferson MorrisonNashville$678K
Michael BeebeMemphis$626K
Gregory PolkowskiNashville$526K
Matthew WillisNashville$498K
Michael ChristieNashville$474K

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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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