Saurabh Chandan, MD
Gastroenterology · Omaha, NENPI 1194145169
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.4%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9%. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,974 and has fallen 79.7% since, to $603 in 2025.
Across 170 payments — averaging $35.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ERBE USA Inc$1K
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$1K
- Gilead$494
- AbbVie$473
- Johnson & Johnson$363
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$317
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,10718%
- Food & beverage$3,57659%
- Education$1,33622%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ERBE USA Inc | 1 | $1,320 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 13 | $1,269 |
| Gilead | 25 | $494 |
| AbbVie | 30 | $473 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $363 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 15 | $317 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $303 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $219 |
| Sanofi | 10 | $209 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $165 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $113 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $101 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $84 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 4 | $76 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $62 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $27 |
| Vivus LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $15 |
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.
- VIO3 EJ2 Hybrid Knife$1,320
- Single Use Electrosurgical Knife KD-655$1,094
- DISPOSABLE DISTAL ATTACHMENT$1,094
- Olympus$1,094
- ZENPEP$262
- Hemospray$127
- TRUFREEZE$101
How this compares
$6,020 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 89 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mesalamine | 14 | $2,343 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 13 | $751 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 29 | $442 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 17 | $210 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 12 | $192 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in Omaha
- Benjamin HallOmaha$154K
- Sandeep MukherjeeOmaha$145K
- Rowen ZettermanOmaha$119K
- Derrick EicheleOmaha$54K
- Joshua EvansOmaha$34K
- Michael SchaferOmaha$30K
- Peter MannonOmaha$30K
- Helen Fasanya-UptagraftOmaha$26K
- Rajani RangrayOmaha$15K
- Grant HutchinsOmaha$15K
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.