Andrew Wheeler, MD
Surgery · Columbia, MONPI 1427142769
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 670 payments — averaging $444.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$194K
- Covidien LP$28K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$26K
- Johnson & Johnson$24K
- Medtronic$14K
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$36,83255%
- Travel & lodging$9,93515%
- Food & beverage$12,44319%
- Education$7,20211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc. | 22 | $194,058 |
| Covidien LP | 122 | $27,668 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 31 | $26,104 |
| Johnson & Johnson(3 entities) | 344 | $24,498 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 95 | $13,510 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 30 | $9,526 |
| Microline Surgical Inc | 1 | $675 |
| Boston Scientific | 7 | $578 |
| Stryker | 4 | $347 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $107 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Endolumik, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $42 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals 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.
- Echelon Flex$22,598
- Echelon Circular$20,481
- Enseal X1$20,365
- Harmonic$8,694
- DAVINCI XI$7,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,844
- N/A$1,304
- Enseal$1,181
- Signia$1,156
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$911
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$159
- SPYGLASS$139
- SpyScope DS$133
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$123
- 1788$123
- LigaSure$115
- WALLFLEX$111
- iDrive$108
- FLOSEAL$107
How this compares
$297,519 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 612 surgery providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 16 | $2,290 |
| Sucralfate | 21 | $1,269 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 55 | $1,099 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Columbia
- John TannColumbia$216K
- Milot ThaqiColumbia$87K
- Kevin BartowColumbia$54K
- Benjamin GerberColumbia$31K
- Thomas XuColumbia$26K
- Norbert RichardsonColumbia$25K
- Forrest EricksenColumbia$21K
- Tiffany OsbornSaint Louis$493K
- Jeffrey BlatnikSaint Louis$422K
- Varun PuriSaint Louis$346K
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.