Brian Whyte, MD
Surgery · Beckley, WVNPI 1407965668
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $36,500 of the $56,112 with a category attached, or 65.0%. Angiodynamics, Inc. accounts for 69.3% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $30,812 and has fallen 86.9% since, to $4,050 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in WV 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 273 payments — averaging $205.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$39K
- Boston Scientific$8K
- Bolton Medical Inc$2K
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$1K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$1K
- Terumo Medical Corporation$844
- plus $5K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8,36715%
- Food & beverage$11,23220%
- Education$130%
- Other$36,50065%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 24 | $38,880 |
| Boston Scientific | 74 | $7,583 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 11 | $1,812 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 12 | $1,410 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 13 | $1,005 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 10 | $844 |
| Philips North America LLC | 16 | $770 |
| Medtronic | 11 | $602 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 26 | $584 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 17 | $555 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 12 | $280 |
| Endologix LLC | 4 | $278 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $274 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 6 | $252 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $124 |
| Novartis | 6 | $120 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $106 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $97 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $76 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $63 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $51 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $27 |
| BD | 1 | $22 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$38,095
- EKOSONIC$2,544
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$1,364
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$1,110
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$1,000
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$1,000
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$1,000
- ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire$1,000
- JETSTREAM SC$739
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$724
- Navicross$549
- Glidesheath$549
- GlideWire$549
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$372
- Ranger$276
- AngioJet Ultra 5000A$263
- ELUVIA$253
- Abre$159
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$138
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$138
How this compares
$56,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 162 surgery providers in West Virginia.
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 | 96 | $71,058 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 85 | $56,271 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 12 | $5,538 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 391 | $3,025 |
| Cilostazol | 141 | $1,404 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $171 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 22 | $77 |
| Prednisone | 19 | $25 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $124 | $71,05896 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $584 | $56,27185 claims |
| AstraZenecaBrilinta | $76 | $5,53812 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 162 surgery providers in West Virginia.
Other surgery in Beckley
- Sarah HayekBeckley$44K
- David StuartBeckley$13K
- Sarang KashyapBeckley$12K
- Nicole WhatleyBeckley$10K
- Oluyemisi SangodeyiBeckley$9K
- Justin HavensBeckley$4K
- Courtney PettifordBeckley$3K
- Scott KillmerBeckley$3K
- Darren NeaseCharleston$107K
- Farzad AmiriHuntington$66K
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.