Steven Saathoff, MD
Family Medicine · Lincoln, NENPI 1801883426
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 154 payments — averaging $17.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$529
- Pfizer$355
- Lilly USA, LLC$262
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$190
- AstraZeneca$187
- Bayer$104
- plus $1K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,53596%
- Education$994%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 32 | $529 |
| Pfizer | 37 | $355 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $262 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $190 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $187 |
| Bayer | 7 | $104 |
| Abbott | 5 | $98 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $92 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $70 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Merck | 3 | $63 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 2 | $52 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $50 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 2 | $48 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $19 |
| Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC | 1 | $19 |
| Biogen | 1 | $19 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $16 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $14 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $12 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $10 |
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.
How this compares
$2,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 981 family medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 116 | $120,668 |
| PercocetOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 19 | $87,313 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 63 | $57,705 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 51 | $54,143 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 40 | $35,511 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 32 | $31,782 |
| EliquisApixaban | 21 | $22,785 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-200Insulin Degludec | 31 | $22,164 |
| Xigduo XrDapaglifloz Propaned/Metformin | 27 | $21,769 |
| SynjardyEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 20 | $20,486 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 35 | $19,768 |
| Synjardy XrEmpagliflozin/Metformin Hcl | 11 | $19,264 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 16 | $17,764 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 16 | $15,567 |
| TradjentaLinagliptin | 17 | $11,733 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Synjardy, Synjardy Xr, Tradjenta | $16 | $172,150164 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $529 | $89,48695 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $12 | $54,14351 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $187 | $35,51140 claims |
| PfizerEliquis, Lyrica | $355 | $29,97032 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $262 | $17,76416 claims |
| MerckJanuvia | $63 | $15,56716 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $190 | $5,01812 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 981 family medicine providers in Nebraska.
Other family medicine in Lincoln
- Allen HuntLincoln$17.2M
- Michael IsraelLincoln$375K
- Randy KohlLincoln$67K
- Matthew GlennLincoln$17K
- Uma NookaLincoln$12K
- Kylie ParshallLincoln$12K
- Michael HuffmanLincoln$11K
- Svjetlana DzikoLincoln$11K
- Eric JohnsonLincoln$10K
- Gary van ErtLincoln$10K
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.