Susanne Sasse, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,750 of the $16,443 with a category attached, or 65.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 84.7% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $14,106 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $486 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 114 payments — averaging $144.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$14K
- Davol Inc.$749
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$329
- AbbVie$249
- Bard Access Systems, Inc.$206
- Smith+Nephew$134
- plus $847 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4503%
- Travel & lodging$2,58916%
- Food & beverage$2,65316%
- Education$10,75065%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 46 | $13,929 |
| Davol Inc. | 14 | $749 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 9 | $329 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $249 |
| Bard Access Systems, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $106 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $104 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $96 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $94 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $51 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Stryker | 1 | $36 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $32 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $31 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $16 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 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.
- DAVINCI XI$10,750
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,330
- INTEGRA$481
- Phasix Plug and Patch$450
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$160
- PRIMATRIX$160
- PROGEL$140
- PHASIX$135
- STRATTICE$130
- Creon$118
How this compares
$16,443 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $325 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Omaha
- Dmitry OleynikovOmaha$180K
- Gary AnthoneOmaha$71K
- Moriah WrightOmaha$37K
- Andy YangOmaha$36K
- Brad WintersteinOmaha$30K
- Ali KhiabaniOmaha$29K
- Benjamin GramsOmaha$21K
- Thomas WhiteOmaha$19K
- Michael HoveyOmaha$19K
- Matthew RivardOmaha$14K
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.