Alex Westerband, MD
Vascular Surgery · Columbia, SCNPI 1295849099
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,682 of the $7,665 with a category attached, or 61.1%. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.6%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,573 and has fallen 60.1% since, to $1,027 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular surgery clinicians in SC, where the typical reported total is $7,261.
Across 79 payments — averaging $97.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$1K
- Boston Scientific$818
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$734
- Endologix LLC$671
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$654
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,83337%
- Food & beverage$4,68261%
- Other$1502%
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 | 9 | $1,196 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 12 | $1,128 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $818 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 5 | $734 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $671 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $654 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 4 | $465 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 5 | $419 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $340 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 4 | $256 |
| Abbott | 1 | $185 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $170 |
| Asahi Intecc USA, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Baylis Medical Technologies Inc. | 1 | $51 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 3 | $36 |
| Stryker | 1 | $33 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $27 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $25 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $14 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Abre$1,070
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$654
- Torus Stent Graft System$630
- ENDOCROSS Device$630
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$595
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$595
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$595
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$595
- Cook Medical AAA$437
- Sublime 014 Rx PTA Balloon Dilatation Catheter$420
- Cook Medical Peripheral Intervention$409
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$340
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$340
- Pounce Thrombectomy$275
- Varithena Administration Pack$250
- JETi Peripheral Catheter$185
- HEDRON IA$162
- AngioVac$156
- ASCLERA$150
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$147
How this compares
$7,665 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 99 vascular surgery providers in South Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $7,437 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other vascular surgery in Columbia
- David DeatonColumbia$609K
- Dimitrios VirvilisColumbia$23K
- Samantha CoxColumbia$12K
- Brittany FraserColumbia$10K
- Camille GrahamColumbia$9K
- Kathryn FongColumbia$6K
- John RossOrangeburg$847K
- Mathew WoosterWest Columbia$443K
- Sagar GandhiGreenville$236K
- Ravi VeeraswamyCharleston$164K
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.