Steven Gogela, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lincoln, NENPI 1326337023
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,950 of the $24,073 with a category attached, or 66.3%. Stryker accounts for 80.0% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $9,098 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $102 in 2025. Among neurological surgery clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 87 payments — averaging $276.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$19K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Medtronic$353
- Abbott$155
- Xtant Medical Inc$127
- MML US, Inc.$126
- plus $455 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,95066%
- Travel & lodging$5,62723%
- Food & beverage$2,49610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 25 | $19,251 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 22 | $3,606 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 9 | $353 |
| Abbott | 8 | $155 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 2 | $127 |
| MML US, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $120 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $32 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $19 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- CANYON RETRACTOR SYSTEMS$14,750
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$7,163
- LITE BIO DELIVERY SYSTEM$7,000
- TRITANIUM$7,000
- Pulse$1,530
- Modulus$1,436
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$1,387
- ALIF$200
- RELINE$172
- Excelsius - GPS$117
- TLIF$104
How this compares
$24,073 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 49 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 28 | $206 |
| Gabapentin | 23 | $175 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $172 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $85 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lincoln
- Andrew LivingstonLincoln$44K
- John HawkinsLincoln$12K
- Jeremy HoseinLincoln$2K
- Marco ParesLincoln$1K
- Benjamin GelberLincoln$1K
- Eric PiersonLincoln$460
- Benjamin BixenmannLincoln$102
- Daniel TomesLincoln$91
- Omar JimenezScottsbluff$33K
- Miki KatzirOmaha$20K
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.