Anthony Tabatabai, DO
Surgery · Lincoln, NENPI 1154732394
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (53.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,047, 6.2 times the $1,617 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 107 payments — averaging $157.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$13K
- Davol Inc.$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$404
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$178
- Baxter Healthcare$146
- plus $667 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5003%
- Travel & lodging$2,82517%
- Food & beverage$4,16925%
- Education$9,00053%
- Gifts$3302%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 43 | $13,249 |
| Davol Inc. | 20 | $1,136 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 10 | $1,045 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $404 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 3 | $178 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $146 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $143 |
| Conmed Corporation | 4 | $123 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $67 |
| Cardinal Health 200 LLC | 1 | $58 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $36 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 1 | $31 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
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.
How this compares
$16,825 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dicyclomine Hcl | 11 | $323 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 87 | $277 |
| Omeprazole | 18 | $224 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $154 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 13 | $104 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 14 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lincoln
- Benjamin HungLincoln$75K
- Clinton RathjeLincoln$14K
- Jordan BowlingLincoln$11K
- Melanie McCormickLincoln$4K
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Jason WalshKearney$58K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Matthew WheelerBellevue$32K
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.