Has Richard Westbrook, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,567 in general payments to Richard Westbrook, MD across 57 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Westbrook, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Westbrook, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Westbrook, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · El Paso, TXNPI 1831165356

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,567in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $62.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$2K
Rattan And Associates$1K
Ossur Americas, Inc.$141
Amgen$97
Johnson & Johnson$55
Medtronic$18

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,36766%
Education$1,20034%

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
Stryker	46	$2,056
Rattan And Associates	1	$1,200
Ossur Americas, Inc.	1	$141
Amgen	6	$97
Johnson & Johnson	2	$55
Medtronic	1	$18

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.

I-digits quantum$141

How this compares

$3,567 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,337 orthopaedic surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$161,683

Medicare patients

353

Services billed

2,881

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
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	503	$11,905
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	505	$11,881
Ibuprofen	309	$6,044
Gabapentin	299	$4,893
Celecoxib	76	$3,438
Tramadol Hcl	307	$3,340
Methylprednisolone	236	$1,746
Prednisone	260	$1,428
Diclofenac Sodium	40	$1,323
Indomethacin	54	$1,205
Naproxen	45	$1,104
Colchicine	19	$955
Lidocaine	12	$919
Indomethacin ErIndomethacin	20	$723
Meloxicam	141	$679

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in El Paso

Alvaro HernandezEl Paso$672K
Stephen BurkhartSan Antonio$185.3M
Kirby HittTemple$9.1M
J Richard EvansonPlano$8.1M
Stefan KreuzerHouston$7M
Robert GrahamAustin$6.3M
Richard JonesDallas$6.3M
Howard HarrisBedford$4.6M
Tiffany HuynhHouston$4.6M
Michael WirthSan Antonio$4.5M

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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.

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