Viren Punja, MD
Trauma Surgery · Omaha, NENPI 1144540295
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 136 payments — averaging $107.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Smith+Nephew$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$299
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$121
- Kls-martin L.p.$97
- plus $807 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,08135%
- Food & beverage$3,50724%
- Education$6,00041%
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 | 27 | $9,010 |
| Smith+Nephew | 34 | $2,464 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 16 | $1,790 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $299 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $97 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 4 | $92 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $81 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $78 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 3 | $72 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $49 |
| BD | 1 | $43 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $30 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $25 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Amgen | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $15 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Organon | 1 | $14 |
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$6,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,647
- Grafix$1,251
- CMF & Thoracic-None$1,180
- PICO$1,138
- Versajet$1,138
- COLLAGENASE SANTYL$1,138
- Stravix$625
- Oasis$355
- AdvantageRib$301
- GRAFIX PL$277
How this compares
Too few trauma surgery providers in Nebraskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 trauma surgery in Omaha
- Neil PatelOmaha$4K
- David CornellOmaha$804
- John AucarOmaha$282
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.