Douglas Tewes, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Lincoln, NENPI 1891760591
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 13 payments — averaging $37.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Arthrex$154
- Conetic Solutions, Inc.$89
- Vericel Corporation$79
- Johnson & Johnson$53
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$29
- Smith+Nephew$23
- plus $57 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$485100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthrex | 1 | $154 |
| Conetic Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $79 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $53 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 32 | $333 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 48 | $273 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 44 | $151 |
| Meloxicam | 39 | $106 |
| Amoxicillin | 91 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Lincoln
- Benjamin WoodheadLincoln$48K
- Matthew FreemanLincoln$30K
- Lukas HashemLincoln$25K
- David SamaniLincoln$22K
- Matthew ByingtonLincoln$10K
- Nickolas van RoekelLincoln$9K
- Dane ToddLincoln$9K
- Steven WahlmeierLincoln$9K
- Brandon SeifertLincoln$7K
- Todd SekundiakElkhorn$7.3M
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.