David Berkheim
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Omaha, NENPI 1275832537
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $17,500 of the $19,515 with a category attached, or 89.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.3% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $10,236 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $1,125 in 2025.
Across 32 payments — averaging $609.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$19K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$119
- AbbVie$25
Across 4 payments — averaging $5609.50 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.
- Regeneron$22K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,4237%
- Food & beverage$5913%
- Education$17,50090%
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 | 30 | $19,371 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
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$16,086
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- Echelon Flex$119
How this compares
$19,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 29 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nebraska.
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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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Omaha
- Helenmari MerrittOmaha$287K
- John BatterOmaha$29K
- Kim DuncanOmaha$23K
- John UmOmaha$16K
- Karin TrujilloOmaha$16K
- Anthony CastleberryOmaha$16K
- Thomas LangdonOmaha$14K
- Marian UrbanOmaha$10K
- Jill NohlOmaha$9K
- Rudy LacknerOmaha$8K
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.