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Industry payments to physicians · Nebraska · 2024

Nebraska

In Nebraska, drug and device makers reported $9M in general payments to 6,730 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,283 each — plus $91M tied to research and $558,996 in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$9M
general payments
6,730
covered recipients paid
$1,283
mean per physician

Top specialties in Nebraska

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Orthopaedic Surgery $675,186
Hematology & Oncology $535,894
Cardiovascular Disease $431,243
Interventional Cardiology $400,921
Allergy & Immunology $388,267
Nurse Practitioner $385,092
Physician Assistant $356,747
Family Medicine $336,636
Nephrology $311,383
Surgery $294,930
Psychiatry $281,386
Neurology $268,095

Highest-paid physicians in Nebraska

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Mojtaba Akhtari Hematology & Oncology · Omaha · top payer: Sobi, Inc $407,966
Kevin Murphy Allergy & Immunology · Boys Town · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $276,638
Edward Fehringer Orthopaedic Surgery · Omaha · top payer: Stryker Corporation $269,815
Robert Percell Cardiovascular Disease · Lincoln · top payer: Abbott Laboratories $170,141
Ryan Martin Pulmonary Disease · Lincoln · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $157,078
Brock Cookman Interventional Cardiology · Lincoln · top payer: Abbott Laboratories $155,822
Ronald Zolty Cardiovascular Disease · Omaha · top payer: Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $152,664
Kristen Hammes Nurse Practitioner · Omaha · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $148,367
Matthew Lunning Medical Oncology · Omaha · top payer: Pfizer Inc. $146,367
Dmitry Oleynikov Surgery · Omaha · top payer: Virtual Incision Corporation $141,058
Michael Aaronson Nephrology · Lincoln · top payer: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $139,828
Himanshu Agarwal Interventional Cardiology · Omaha · top payer: Abbott Laboratories $137,111
Vithyalakshmi Selvaraj Psychiatry · Omaha · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $130,888
Anthony Bolamperti Dentist · Omaha · top payer: Convergent Dental Inc. $120,502
Beau Kildow Orthopaedic Surgery · Omaha · top payer: ENCORE MEDICAL, LP $118,745
John Park Vascular Surgery · Omaha · top payer: Boston Scientific Corporation $108,569
Varsha Kadyan Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology · La Vista · top payer: ZIMVIE INC. $86,183
Michael Jobst Colon & Rectal Surgery · Lincoln · top payer: Virtual Incision Corporation $79,737
Lorraine Provencher Ophthalmology · Omaha · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $77,022
Rylee Horsley Women's Health · Kearney · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $67,903
Richard Lund Nephrology · Omaha · top payer: Travere Therapeutics, Inc. $66,346
Sarit Hovav Psychiatry · Omaha · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $66,033
Ronald Krueger Ophthalmology · Omaha · top payer: Alcon Vision LLC $64,613
John Wright Orthopaedic Surgery · Kearney · top payer: Stryker Corporation $63,573
Sayfe Jassim Orthopaedic Surgery · Omaha · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $55,431

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Nebraska — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.