Aleem Siddique, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Omaha, NENPI 1194929976
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,731 of the $5,739 with a category attached, or 65.0%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.5%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,918 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $322 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in NE, where the typical reported total is $6,785.
Across 75 payments — averaging $76.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$528
- Abbott$448
- Cook Medical LLC$427
- plus $810 from 5 others
Across 13 payments — averaging $4682.32 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Transmedics, Inc.$61K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,94834%
- Food & beverage$3,73165%
- Education$601%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $1,234 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 28 | $1,191 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $1,100 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $528 |
| Abbott | 5 | $448 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 4 | $427 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $299 |
| Stryker | 1 | $169 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $127 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $72 |
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.
- HeartWare HVAD$929
- CMF & Thoracic Product Portfolio$739
- Cook Medical Zenith$370
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$284
- CRYOVALVE SG PULMONARY HUMAN HEART VALVE$283
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$222
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$177
- BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$170
- NA$169
- SONOPET IQ$169
- STRYKER$169
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$147
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$143
- INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$135
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$135
- Impella$127
How this compares
$5,739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 29 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nebraska.
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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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Omaha
- Helenmari MerrittOmaha$287K
- John BatterOmaha$29K
- Kim DuncanOmaha$23K
- David BerkheimOmaha$20K
- John UmOmaha$16K
- Karin TrujilloOmaha$16K
- Anthony CastleberryOmaha$16K
- Thomas LangdonOmaha$14K
- Marian UrbanOmaha$10K
- Jill NohlOmaha$9K
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.