Brandon Vanderwel
Surgery · Shoreline, WANPI 1144667858
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $79,029 of the $124,758 with a category attached, or 63.3%. Boston Scientific accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $54,390, more than ten times the $2,204 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in WA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 235 payments — averaging $530.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$96K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$17K
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Medtronic$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$59
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,60010%
- Speaking & faculty fees$79,02963%
- Travel & lodging$19,41716%
- Food & beverage$6,9626%
- Education$6,7505%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 129 | $95,670 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 43 | $17,267 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 20 | $8,113 |
| Medtronic | 32 | $2,253 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,382 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $59 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 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.
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$41,218
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$22,256
- OverStitch NXT Endoscopic Suturing System$9,259
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$7,636
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,557
- APOLLO ESG System$5,130
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System Sx$3,276
- Apollo ESG NXT System$2,317
- GENERAL ENDOCHOICE$1,720
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,184
- LigaSure$826
- Signia$492
- GENERAL HEMOSTASIS$118
How this compares
$124,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 549 surgery providers in Washington.
Other surgery in Shoreline
- Kurtis StewartShoreline$26K
- Matthew KleinSeattle$328K
- Kevin CliveSilverdale$289K
- Adnan AlseidiSeattle$240K
- Prakash GattaTacoma$212K
- Aileen HwangIssaquah$195K
- Rajeev MisraSilverdale$183K
- Amir BastawrousSeattle$131K
- Alejandro ArnoldCovington$131K
- Peter BillingKirkland$109K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.