Robert Plambeck, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Omaha, NENPI 1780945162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 15 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 15 payments — averaging $19.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$57
- BD$44
- Grifols USA, LLC$34
- AstraZeneca$33
- Vantive US Healthcare LLC$33
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$19
- plus $69 from 5 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $13,597 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Grifols Therapeutics LLC$54K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$289100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| BD | 1 | $44 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $33 |
| Vantive US Healthcare LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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 Omaha
- Tammy WichmanOmaha$12K
- Jason LambrechtOmaha$1K
- Steven LiscoOmaha$551
- Andrew PattersonOmaha$454
- Dominique SamuelOmaha$393
- Sabin BistaOmaha$370
- Kara ReyesOmaha$69
- Zahid IqbalOmaha$52
- Ashley CarneOmaha$37
- Terry BrownOmaha$36
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.