Andrew Livingston, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lincoln, NENPI 1053569111
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $34,250 of the $44,333 with a category attached, or 77.3%. Stryker accounts for 72.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among neurological 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 75 payments — averaging $591.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$32K
- VB Spine LLC$10K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Abbott$99
- Aesculap, Inc.$56
- Boston Scientific$47
- plus $105 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$34,25077%
- Travel & lodging$8,91820%
- Food & beverage$1,1663%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 45 | $32,027 |
| VB Spine LLC | 7 | $9,963 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $2,037 |
| Abbott | 5 | $99 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $47 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $27 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $21 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- Vulcan Spinal System$9,907
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$8,500
- Pulse$994
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$827
- Modulus$600
- MAKO$442
- ALIF$400
How this compares
$44,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 16 | $163 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lincoln
- Steven GogelaLincoln$24K
- John HawkinsLincoln$12K
- Jeremy HoseinLincoln$2K
- Marco ParesLincoln$1K
- Benjamin GelberLincoln$1K
- Eric PiersonLincoln$460
- Benjamin BixenmannLincoln$102
- Daniel TomesLincoln$91
- Omar JimenezScottsbluff$33K
- Miki KatzirOmaha$20K
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.