Bradley Hertzler, MD
Surgery · Scottsbluff, NENPI 1780003293
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $14,500 of the $20,717 with a category attached, or 70.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.2% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $11,410 and has fallen 98.6% since, to $158 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 87 payments — averaging $238.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$20K
- Medtronic$121
- Covidien LP$117
- Smith+Nephew$114
- Kls-martin L.p.$108
- Organogenesis Inc.$67
- plus $259 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$130%
- Travel & lodging$4,21620%
- Food & beverage$1,8249%
- Education$14,50070%
- Gifts$1641%
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 | 51 | $19,930 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 7 | $121 |
| Covidien LP | 6 | $117 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $114 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 4 | $108 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $53 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $41 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $24 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Z-medica, LLC | 1 | $13 |
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$16,131
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
How this compares
$20,717 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 49 | $709 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 25 | $404 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $339 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 14 | $218 |
| Omeprazole | 29 | $193 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 45 | $123 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $115 |
| Ibuprofen | 24 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Scottsbluff
- Jason LatowskyScottsbluff$22K
- Jeffrey HollowayScottsbluff$18K
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Benjamin HungLincoln$75K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Jason WalshKearney$58K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Matthew WheelerBellevue$32K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
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.