Christopher James Wester

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Cox Medical Centers Hospital · Springfield, MO · listed as Lester E. Cox Medical Centers
• Cox Monett Hospital Hospital · Monett, MO · listed as Cox- Monett Hospital, Inc
• Phoenix Home Care And Hospice Home health agency · Springfield, MO · listed as Phoenix Home Care, LLC
• Cox Medical Center Branson Hospital · Branson, MO
• Amedisys Home Health Of Missouri Home health agency · Springfield, MO
• Coxhealth At Home Home health agency · Springfield, MO

Colleagues at Lester E Cox Medical Centers

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 249 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Rachel Cobos, MD Surgery Physician · Springfield, MO
• Dr. Amanda Fischer, MD Surgery Physician · Branson, MO
• David Rhea Gilley, MD Otolaryngology Physician · Springfield, MO
• Jessica Anne Hanson, MD Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician · Springfield, MO
• Sally Claire Howard, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Columbia, MO
• Tara N Loveland, NP-C Nurse Practitioner · Sparta, MO
• Jennifer A Malossi, MD Urology Physician · Springfield, MO
• Meredith Teresa McAmis, PA-C Physician Assistant · Springfield, MO
• Alexa Renee Snodgrass Family Nurse Practitioner · Springfield, MO
• Dr. Steven C Weissfeld, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Springfield, MO
• Bradley D Wiley, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Springfield, MO
• Tessa Norene Woods, DO Surgery Physician · Fort Worth, TX

Other providers in Springfield

• Dr. Richard A. Seagrave, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1407995699

  1229 E Seminole St, Springfield, MO 65804-2227 · (417) 820-5610

• David Andrew Volgas, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1265484901

  3800 S National Ave Ste 600, Springfield, MO 65807-7310 · (417) 875-3846

• Dr. Bradley H. Walz, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1649319963

  1229 E Seminole St, Springfield, MO 65804-2227 · (417) 820-5610

• Dr. Steven C Weissfeld, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1982701041

  3555 S National Ave, Springfield, MO 65807-7310 · (417) 875-3462

• Dr. Victor Warren Wilson, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1528078136

  1229 E Seminole St Ste 230, Springfield, MO 65804-2227 · (417) 820-5610