Scott Rasmussen
Internal Medicine · Lincoln, NENPI 1013920180
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $860 of the $1,184 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck.
Across 11 payments — averaging $107.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
Across 257 payments — averaging $148,122 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.
- Vertex$15.4M
- Regeneron$7.2M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$6.6M
- Merck$3.6M
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$3.1M
- Sage Therapeutics, LLC$1.1M
- plus $982K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$86073%
- Food & beverage$32427%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 11 | $1,184 |
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.
- MK-8591$765
How this compares
$1,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 570 internal medicine providers in Nebraska.
Other internal medicine in Lincoln
- Sherri ThomasLincoln$136K
- Aaron WardLincoln$15K
- Anthony RossLincoln$6K
- Wasim ChughtaiLincoln$6K
- Mary DreyLincoln$6K
- Alexander RyanLincoln$5K
- James FosnaughLincoln$3K
- Brian BoerOmaha$142K
- Adam BurdorfOmaha$29K
- David SharpOmaha$26K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.