Brandon Essink
Family Medicine · Creighton, NENPI 1982604237
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (54.8%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 35.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,680 and has fallen 71.3% since, to $1,056 in 2025. Among family medicine 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 31 payments — averaging $242.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$3K
- Seqirus USA Inc$2K
- Modernatx, Inc.$1K
- Eli Lilly$1K
- Merck$980
- Sanofi$56
Across 10,063 payments — averaging $9237.40 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Modernatx, Inc.$56.1M
- Pfizer$13.7M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$9.5M
- GSK$3.2M
- Seqirus USA Inc$2.8M
- Emergent Biosolutions Inc.$2.1M
- plus $5.7M from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,56021%
- Travel & lodging$4,11655%
- Food & beverage$1,81524%
- Gifts$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 10 | $2,629 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 7 | $1,632 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 4 | $1,215 |
| Eli Lilly | 1 | $1,000 |
| Merck | 7 | $980 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $56 |
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
$7,511 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 981 family medicine providers in Nebraska.
Other family medicine in Creighton
- Michael IsraelLincoln$375K
- Francisco DozonNorfolk$238K
- Randy KohlLincoln$67K
- James OmelGrand Island$67K
- Gerard StanleyOmaha$50K
- Jared KramerSt Paul$41K
- Randolph WaldmanHebron$27K
- Brian FinleyBellevue$20K
- William FitzgibbonsElkhorn$18K
- Michael BrennerSouth Sioux City$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.