Heber Crockett, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Kearney, NENPI 1669412698
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $2,864,195 of the $4,244,523 with a category attached, or 67.5%. Medtronic accounts for 78.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,867,860 and has fallen 99.7% since, to $7,526 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 24 payments — averaging $176,855 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$3.3M
- Kaleo, Inc.$904K
- Stryker$54
- Zimmer Biomet$48
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$40
- AbbVie$22
- plus $18 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$2,864,19567%
- Food & beverage$1820%
- Ownership interest$189,2084%
- Other$1,190,93728%
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(2 entities) | 14 | $3,339,979 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 4 | $904,362 |
| Stryker | 1 | $54 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $48 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 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.
- Ellipsys$348,587
- ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM$127,196
How this compares
$4,244,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 Kearney
- John WrightKearney$1.2M
- David HuebnerKearney$131K
- James MahalekKearney$11K
- Dennis McGowanKearney$11K
- Chris WilkinsonKearney$7K
- Patrick HarrisonKearney$6K
- Ryan DeblisKearney$5K
- Todd SekundiakElkhorn$7.3M
- Edward FehringerOmaha$2M
- Joshua UrbanOmaha$475K
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.