Brian Weatherby, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Simpsonville, SCNPI 1548380850
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.4%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 43.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,457 and has fallen 64.0% since, to $885 in 2025.
Across 82 payments — averaging $95.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Peerless Surgical Inc.$3K
- Avanos Medical$333
- Flower Orthopedics Coporation$304
- Biom'up France SAS$147
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$145
- plus $534 from 8 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $3500.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,57133%
- Food & beverage$3,84949%
- Education$1,35617%
- Gifts$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker(2 entities) | 55 | $3,378 |
| Peerless Surgical Inc. | 7 | $2,949 |
| Avanos Medical | 7 | $333 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 2 | $304 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $147 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $137 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $126 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $125 |
| Activortho, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $51 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $15 |
| Osteocentric Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- INFINITY$775
- INBONE$588
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$279
- CITREFIX$219
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$174
- ORTHOLOC$153
- STAR$150
- HemoBlast Bellows$147
- PROPHECY$146
- CellerateRx$145
- Breg VPULSE, PlasmaFlow, PolarCareWave$137
- OsteoAMP$126
- DJO Surgical 3DKnee System$125
- PROstep$114
- MICA$101
How this compares
$7,790 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 87 foot and ankle surgery providers in South Carolina.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 112 | $358 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $245 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 90 | $190 |
| Cephalexin | 70 | $160 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $103 |
| Meloxicam | 31 | $95 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 23 | $55 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 12 | $40 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Simpsonville
- Michael SweeneySimpsonville$8K
- Isabella SaleySimpsonville$3K
- Brianna LachSimpsonville$3K
- Benjamin OverleyHilton Head Island$643K
- Tyler GonzalezColumbia$525K
- Alison GartenRock Hill$419K
- Christopher GrossCharleston$394K
- Robert KleinGreenville$358K
- William JamesColumbia$222K
- William HarrisLancaster$203K
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.