Michael Hovey, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (40.7%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 63.4% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,760 and has fallen 78.4% since, to $1,244 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 154 payments — averaging $120.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$12K
- Medtronic$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$885
- BD$552
- Davol Inc.$510
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,55941%
- Food & beverage$6,96538%
- Education$4,00022%
- Gifts$300%
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 | 67 | $11,766 |
| Medtronic | 22 | $1,640 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $1,122 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 8 | $885 |
| BD | 2 | $552 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $510 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $390 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $388 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $264 |
| Stryker | 2 | $197 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $187 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $134 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Vertex | 2 | $55 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 3 | $36 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $30 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $27 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| TELA Bio, 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$7,018
- DAVINCI XI$3,000
- APOLLO ESG System$1,039
- INTEGRA$929
- LigaSure$818
- Phasix Mesh$668
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$587
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$310
- PRIMATRIX$310
- Wegovy$240
- LINX Reflux Management System$229
- Signia$165
- 1588$150
- PHASIX$135
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$134
How this compares
$18,553 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 11 | $149 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 12 | $75 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Omaha
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
- Benjamin GramsOmaha$21K
- Thomas WhiteOmaha$19K
- Susanne SasseOmaha$16K
- Matthew RivardOmaha$14K
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.