Has William McGee, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,461 in general payments to William McGee, MD across 77 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 William McGee, 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 William McGee, 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.

William McGee, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · West Plains, MONPI 1023087764

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,555 of the $2,461 with a category attached, or 63.2%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Endologix LLC at 32.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,242 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $35 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $4,200.

$2,461in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $31.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Endologix LLC$800
Medtronic$609
Smith+Nephew$221
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$214
Johnson & Johnson$188
Organogenesis Inc.$86
plus $344 from 13 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$90737%
Food & beverage$1,55563%

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
Endologix LLC	6	$800
Medtronic	7	$609
Smith+Nephew	11	$221
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	14	$214
Johnson & Johnson	16	$188
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$86
KCI USA, Inc.	2	$60
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	2	$38
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	2	$36
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	2	$34
AbbVie	2	$34
Solventum Corporation	2	$32
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$31
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$16
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$15
Amgen	1	$14
Novartis	1	$14
Pfizer	1	$13
Kls-martin L.p.	1	$7

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.

AFX$491
Micra$246
Ovation$218

How this compares

$2,461 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 113 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$81,380

Medicare patients

159

Services billed

1,941

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
Daptomycin	12	$6,185
Linezolid	16	$3,916
Levofloxacin	45	$436
Pentoxifylline	16	$402
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	53	$256
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	27	$236
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	25	$107
Sodium ChlorideSodium Chloride Irrig Solution	11	$80

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in West Plains

Justin van MeeterenKansas City$398K
Tsuyoshi KanekoSaint Louis$353K
Ralph DamianoSaint Louis$134K
Joss FernandezColumbia$100K
Jeremy LeidenfrostChesterfield$97K
Ronald NewCape Girardeau$61K
Dante DaliSpringfield$58K
Puja KachrooSaint Louis$57K
Umraan AhmadSaint Louis$51K
John DavisKansas City$50K

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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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