Benjamin Grams, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (33.8%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 48.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $6,656 and has fallen 67.9% since, to $2,137 in 2025. 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 142 payments — averaging $145.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$10K
- Davol Inc.$4K
- Virtual Incision Corporation$2K
- Stryker$1K
- BD$931
- TELA Bio, Inc.$655
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,7508%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00010%
- Travel & lodging$4,90124%
- Food & beverage$6,98634%
- Education$5,00024%
- Gifts$160%
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 | 60 | $10,056 |
| Davol Inc. | 17 | $3,709 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 2 | $1,750 |
| Stryker | 7 | $1,436 |
| BD | 11 | $931 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 8 | $655 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 6 | $363 |
| Smith+Nephew | 5 | $307 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $207 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 2 | $167 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $161 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $129 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $123 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $113 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $105 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $20 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$7,934
- Mira!$1,750
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Phasix Mesh$819
- 1688$635
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$625
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$498
- Magseed$256
- Magtrace$256
- Grafix XC$248
- Stravix$248
- 1788$156
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$150
- PROGEL$140
- Restrata Wound Matrix$132
- CellerateRx$128
- Grafix PRIME$125
- Grafix CORE$125
- Grafix PL PRIME$125
- PHASIX$125
How this compares
$20,653 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 22 | $92 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 26 | $44 |
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
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
- 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.