Melissa Stade, MD
Surgery · Kearney, NENPI 1164543674
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (42.0%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,205 and has fallen 62.6% since, to $824 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $104.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Davol Inc.$693
- Endomagnetics Ltd$153
- Smith+Nephew$87
- Stryker$60
- Solventum Corporation$48
- plus $207 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,45442%
- Food & beverage$84925%
- Education$1,16033%
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 | 11 | $2,214 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $693 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $153 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $87 |
| Stryker | 1 | $60 |
| Solventum Corporation | 2 | $48 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $48 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $39 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $35 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $14 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $12 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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$1,901
- Phasix Mesh$631
- Magseed$153
- Magtrace$153
How this compares
$3,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 197 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 surgery in Kearney
- Jason WalshKearney$58K
- Brittney Maloley-LewisKearney$9K
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Benjamin HungLincoln$75K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Matthew WheelerBellevue$32K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
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.