Cassandra Kaczmarek, APRN
Acute Care · Omaha, NENPI 1760140412
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,360 of the $1,855 with a category attached, or 73.3%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 39.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,168 and has fallen 66.1% since, to $396 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $59.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$740
- Abiomed$245
- Abbott$217
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$176
- Novartis$169
- Amgen$135
- plus $173 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$49527%
- Food & beverage$1,36073%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 4 | $740 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $245 |
| Abbott | 3 | $217 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 6 | $176 |
| Novartis | 9 | $169 |
| Amgen | 1 | $135 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $108 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Micra$157
- Repatha$135
- LifeVest$108
- CARDIOMEMS$106
How this compares
$1,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 103 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $7,899 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Omaha
- Jennifer BecherOmaha$7K
- Mary LauerOmaha$7K
- Rachel RagerOmaha$6K
- Brittany KellyOmaha$4K
- Angela ClabornOmaha$3K
- Amy SwerczekOmaha$2K
- Stephanie ChristensenOmaha$2K
- Angela SivertsonOmaha$2K
- Elisabeth ElganOmaha$1K
- Andrea KaufmanOmaha$759
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.