Thomas White, MD
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.0%. 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 165 payments — averaging $118.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$3K
- Davol Inc.$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$3K
- Abbott$2K
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,47513%
- Travel & lodging$7,60839%
- Food & beverage$9,39248%
- Gifts$140%
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 | 12 | $3,500 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 22 | $2,962 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $2,764 |
| Davol Inc. | 41 | $2,614 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 18 | $2,610 |
| Abbott | 4 | $2,475 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 5 | $705 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $581 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 2 | $207 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $161 |
| Reshape Lifesciences Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| BD | 1 | $142 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $104 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $66 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $29 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $11 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $9 |
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.
- PROCLAIM$2,475
- ALIF$2,234
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,758
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$1,416
- 1788$1,156
- SEAMGUARD$1,128
- GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$694
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$639
- Phasix Mesh$592
- 1588 HD 3 CHIP CAMERA$587
- PHASIX$370
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$242
- DISPOSABLES - OTHER$161
- Modulus$159
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$151
- 1688$149
- Enseal X1$125
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$121
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$121
- ETHICON$120
How this compares
$19,488 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.
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
- Michael HoveyOmaha$19K
- Susanne SasseOmaha$16K
- 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.