Bennett Berning, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Omaha, NENPI 1285029207
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,723 of the $3,474 with a category attached, or 78.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.1% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,937, more than ten times the $115 reported in 2022.
Across 20 payments — averaging $173.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Smith+Nephew$172
- BD$153
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$144
- Atricure, Inc.$91
- Zimmer Biomet$80
- plus $50 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,72378%
- Food & beverage$75022%
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 | 10 | $2,784 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $172 |
| BD | 2 | $153 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $144 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $80 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $27 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
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$2,655
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$144
- Phasix Mesh$127
- GRAFIX PL$115
- Oasis$115
- Stravix$115
How this compares
Too few surgical critical care providers in Nebraskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 surgical critical care in Omaha
- Zachary BaumanOmaha$368K
- Keely BuesingOmaha$8K
- John TierneyOmaha$8K
- Samuel CemajOmaha$2K
- Emily CantrellOmaha$1K
- Kevin KempOmaha$1K
- William TerzianOmaha$860
- Charity EvansOmaha$453
- Brett WaibelOmaha$135
- Matthew GoedeOmaha$123
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.