Fernando Yepes, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Kearney, NENPI 1366607624
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 70.0% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,062, more than ten times the $143 reported in 2019.
Across 24 payments — averaging $101.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- BD$330
- Abiomed$160
- Pharming Healthcare, Inc.$125
- AstraZeneca$51
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$25
- plus $40 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,34555%
- Food & beverage$1,09645%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 11 | $1,710 |
| BD | 5 | $330 |
| Abiomed | 3 | $160 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $51 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Merck | 1 | $22 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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
Too few critical care medicine providers in Nebraskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 critical care medicine in Kearney
- Tammy WichmanOmaha$12K
- Niraj YadavGrand Island$5K
- Camille KantaiNorfolk$4K
- Elena SkillettLincoln$2K
- Jason LambrechtOmaha$1K
- Mary CammackLincoln$645
- Steven LiscoOmaha$551
- Andrew PattersonOmaha$454
- Dominique SamuelOmaha$393
- Sabin BistaOmaha$370
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.