Shaheed Merani, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $7,669 of the $10,746 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Transmedics, Inc. at 54.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,752, more than ten times the $125 reported in 2019.
Across 31 payments — averaging $346.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Transmedics, Inc.$6K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Organox Ltd$2K
- Xvivo Perfusion Inc.$517
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$222
- Organ Recovery Systems, Inc.$212
- plus $260 from 3 others
Across 54 payments — averaging $10,258 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.
- Transmedics, Inc.$382K
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$172K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$7,66971%
- Food & beverage$1,57715%
- Education$1,50014%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Transmedics, Inc. | 8 | $5,802 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 6 | $2,020 |
| Organox Ltd | 9 | $1,713 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 2 | $517 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $222 |
| Organ Recovery Systems, Inc. | 1 | $212 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $125 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $25 |
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.
- ORGAN CARE SYSTEM$5,802
- METRA$1,529
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- XVIVO Perfusion System (XPS)$517
- Da Vinci Surgical System$444
- THYMOGLOBULIN$125
How this compares
$10,746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tacrolimus | 11 | $209 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Thomas WhiteOmaha$19K
- Michael HoveyOmaha$19K
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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.