Sara Putnam, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Omaha, NENPI 1649533951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,563 of the $11,292 with a category attached, or 67.0%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 79.3% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $8,552, 5.6 times the $1,533 reported in 2019.
Across 26 payments — averaging $434.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$9K
- Smith+Nephew$1K
- Synthes GmbH$625
- Stryker$182
- Johnson & Johnson$40
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$9
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,56367%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6256%
- Travel & lodging$1,94517%
- Food & beverage$1,15910%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 15 | $8,949 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $1,487 |
| Synthes GmbH | 1 | $625 |
| Stryker | 2 | $182 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $40 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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.
- Taylor Spatial Frame$1,415
- PELVIS II$170
- Persona$142
- mymobility Platform$126
How this compares
$11,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 Omaha
- Edward FehringerOmaha$2M
- Joshua UrbanOmaha$475K
- Sayfe JassimOmaha$460K
- Beau KildowOmaha$353K
- Matthew DilisioOmaha$58K
- Samuel DubrowOmaha$34K
- Jonathan BuzzellOmaha$33K
- Michael StojanovicOmaha$22K
- Kirk HuttonOmaha$15K
- Sean McGarryOmaha$12K
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.