Ankit Verma, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,258 of the $10,078 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Edwards Lifesciences at 48.7% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,125, more than ten times the $349 reported in 2021.
Across 119 payments — averaging $84.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$5K
- Artivion, Inc.$1K
- Abiomed$802
- Abbott$776
- Getinge USA Sales, LLC$725
- Atricure, Inc.$565
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,61836%
- Food & beverage$6,25862%
- Education$2022%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 43 | $4,904 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 11 | $1,183 |
| Abiomed | 12 | $802 |
| Abbott | 17 | $776 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 11 | $725 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 8 | $565 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 3 | $248 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $201 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $150 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $144 |
| Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C. | 1 | $129 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $40 |
| G1 Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Stryker | 1 | $15 |
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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$1,225
- Cardiac non-SynerGraft$902
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$629
- THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$297
- ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$262
- Impella$255
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$254
- Acrobat-I Stabilizer$252
- MITRIS RESILIA Mitral Valve$163
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$158
- Avalus$137
- HeartString III Proximal Seal$131
- Vasoview Hemopro 2$129
How this compares
$10,078 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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.
Other surgery in Omaha
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
- Benjamin GramsOmaha$21K
- Thomas WhiteOmaha$19K
- Michael HoveyOmaha$19K
- Susanne SasseOmaha$16K
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.