Michael West, MD
Surgery · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1437387396
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 64 payments — averaging $20.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$324
- Johnson & Johnson$134
- Davol Inc.$111
- Shire North American Group Inc$97
- TELA Bio, Inc.$84
- Intuitive Surgical$62
- plus $521 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,331100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 13 | $324 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 7 | $134 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $111 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 6 | $97 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 7 | $84 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $62 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Music City Medical Technologies, LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $43 |
| Vertex | 2 | $42 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $38 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $37 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $25 |
| Stryker | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| EKOS Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $15 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 377 surgery providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sucralfate | 34 | $1,163 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 49 | $276 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 35 | $117 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 21 | $105 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 13 | $94 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Bowling Green
- George BushBowling Green$120K
- Timothy WiersonBowling Green$51K
- Joseph KimLexington$1.6M
- John RothLexington$1.6M
- Eric SmithAshland$1.1M
- John OldhamLouisville$515K
- George MundayDanville$271K
- Amber KoonHenderson$210K
- Frank MillerLouisville$119K
- David VictorMorehead$113K
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.