Brad Winterstein, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (59.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.0% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $19,587 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $767 in 2025. Among 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 197 payments — averaging $152.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$23K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- BD$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- AbbVie$277
- Bard Access Systems, Inc.$206
- plus $2K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,17714%
- Food & beverage$7,85426%
- Education$18,00060%
- 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 | 61 | $23,434 |
| Davol Inc. | 27 | $1,732 |
| BD | 10 | $1,318 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 23 | $1,063 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $277 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $200 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $187 |
| Stryker | 1 | $175 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $151 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 6 | $126 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $117 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 4 | $97 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $67 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $41 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $22 |
| KUB Technologies Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Mesh Suture Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $13 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 1 | $12 |
| 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$21,005
- Phasix Mesh$1,557
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- PHASIX$381
- TISSEEL$177
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$150
- PROGEL$140
- Restrata Wound Matrix$132
- ETHICON$120
- Surgicel Powder$115
- LINX Reflux Management System$105
How this compares
$30,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Omaha
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
- Benjamin GramsOmaha$21K
- 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.