William Braswell, MD
Surgery · Alabaster, ALNPI 1487725222
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.1%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 70.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,337 and has fallen 90.6% since, to $126 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in AL, where the typical reported total is $1,812.
Across 43 payments — averaging $52.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$159
- Kerecis Limited$102
- Urgo Medical North America, LLC$90
- TELA Bio, Inc.$49
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$43
- plus $215 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1627%
- Food & beverage$1,07648%
- Education$1,00045%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,580 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $159 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $102 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 5 | $90 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $37 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $24 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,156
How this compares
$2,237 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 382 surgery providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 111 | $755 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $93 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Alabaster
- Barton WoodAlabaster$702K
- John PorterfieldBessemer$972K
- Forrest RingoldMobile$678K
- Dennis FernandezHuntsville$266K
- Cameron AskewBirmingham$236K
- Terry TreadwellMontgomery$127K
- Charles NewmanGadsden$123K
- Jason BeaverDothan$106K
- John TouliatosBirmingham$75K
- Jayme LockeBirmingham$63K
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.