Daniel Firestone, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Omaha, NENPI 1285836049
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.2%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Ziehm-orthoscan, Inc. accounts for 60.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,122, 4.9 times the $1,041 reported in 2019.
Across 40 payments — averaging $202.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ziehm-orthoscan, Inc.$5K
- Arthrex$1K
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$1K
- RSW Medical Company, Inc.$394
- Stryker$123
- AstraZeneca$87
- plus $153 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,80059%
- Travel & lodging$1,68721%
- Food & beverage$1,13614%
- Education$4886%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ziehm-orthoscan, Inc. | 2 | $4,928 |
| Arthrex | 15 | $1,232 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $1,194 |
| RSW Medical Company, Inc. | 4 | $394 |
| Stryker | 4 | $123 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $87 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $44 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
How this compares
$8,111 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 155 orthopaedic 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Omaha
- Edward FehringerOmaha$2M
- Joshua UrbanOmaha$475K
- Sayfe JassimOmaha$460K
- Beau KildowOmaha$353K
- Matthew DilisioOmaha$58K
- Samuel DubrowOmaha$34K
- Jonathan BuzzellOmaha$33K
- Michael StojanovicOmaha$22K
- Kirk HuttonOmaha$15K
- Sean McGarryOmaha$12K
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.