Has John Batter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $29,202 in general payments to John Batter, MD across 289 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean John Batter, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about John Batter, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

John Batter, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Omaha, NENPI 1932189453

Payments from drug & device makers

$29,202in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 289 payments — averaging $101.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$20K
Atricure, Inc.$3K
Medtronic$2K
Artivion, Inc.$917
Edwards Lifesciences$818
Abbott$650
plus $2K from 46 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$6,33022%
Food & beverage$9,34332%
Education$13,50046%
Gifts$290%

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	52	$19,736
Atricure, Inc.	39	$2,692
Medtronic(2 entities)	32	$2,026
Artivion, Inc.	17	$917
Edwards Lifesciences	38	$818
Abbott	5	$650
Boston Scientific	7	$225
Baxter Healthcare	4	$218
Corcym Inc	6	$182
Pfizer	7	$121
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$119
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	5	$112
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	8	$108
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	3	$105
Boehringer Ingelheim	6	$99
Novartis	6	$96
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$65
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	4	$62
Conmed Corporation	1	$50
Conetic Solutions, Inc.	3	$45
Scpharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$44
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$43
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	3	$43
Abiomed	2	$40
Stryker	2	$37
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$32
GSK	2	$32
Pinnacle Biologics, Inc	1	$31
AstraZeneca	2	$30
Amgen	2	$30
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$28
BD	1	$26
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$25
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$22
Teleflex LLC	1	$22
Bolton Medical Inc	1	$20
Harmony Biosciences LLC	1	$20
Cook Medical LLC	1	$19
Kls-martin L.p.	2	$19
Zimmer Biomet	1	$18
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$17
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$17
Agiliti Surgical, Inc.	1	$17
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$16
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$15
Davol Inc.	1	$15
Bayer	1	$14
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$13
Merck	1	$13
Covidien LP	1	$11
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$11

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$18,743
CoreValve Evolut$1,100
ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$707
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$355
INSPIRIS RESILIA aortic valve$348
Epic$299
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$279
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$194
Micra$182
Epic Stented Tissue Valve$170
Mitra Clip system$163
COREVALVE EVOLUT R$138
GENERAL - STRUCTURAL HEART$122
Evera$116
ON-X AORTIC HEART VALVE WITH CONFORM-X SEWING RING AND EXTENDED HOLDER$108
BIOGLUE SURGICAL ADHESIVE$108

How this compares

$29,202 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 29 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Nebraska.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$176,172

Medicare patients

148

Services billed

380

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

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Helenmari MerrittOmaha$300K
Marian UrbanOmaha$172K
Aleem SiddiqueOmaha$66K
Brett DuncanOmaha$59K
David BerkheimOmaha$42K
Kim DuncanOmaha$23K
Karin TrujilloOmaha$16K
Anthony CastleberryOmaha$16K
Thomas LangdonOmaha$14K

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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.

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