Ali Khiabani
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $17,857 of the $29,285 with a category attached, or 61.0%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Philips North America LLC at 43.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $19,767 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $3,893 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 203 payments — averaging $144.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Philips North America LLC$13K
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Abbott$1K
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$1K
- plus $5K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$17,85761%
- Food & beverage$10,53936%
- Education$8893%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philips North America LLC | 13 | $12,587 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 77 | $6,444 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 23 | $1,995 |
| Abbott | 15 | $1,417 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 14 | $1,156 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 14 | $1,156 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 7 | $917 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 5 | $623 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $557 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $440 |
| Abiomed | 7 | $428 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $413 |
| Corcym Inc | 5 | $272 |
| Arthrex | 2 | $268 |
| Stryker | 1 | $157 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $131 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $115 |
| BD | 2 | $76 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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.
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$12,242
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$1,522
- MitraClip$705
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$691
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$575
- STERNALOCK 360 SYSTEM$540
- PREVELEAK$440
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$434
- AngioVac$428
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$425
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$417
- ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$412
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$412
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$392
- STERNALOCK$381
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$280
- ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$275
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$245
- Epic$177
- AMDS-Ascyrus Medical$171
How this compares
$29,285 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 197 surgery providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 48 | $149 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Omaha
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
- Benjamin GramsOmaha$21K
- Thomas WhiteOmaha$19K
- Michael HoveyOmaha$19K
- Susanne SasseOmaha$16K
- Matthew RivardOmaha$14K
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.