Hand Surgery in Nebraska
21 providers, $61,494 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $906.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays hand surgery clinicians in Nebraska
Across 18 hand surgery clinicians in Nebraska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,225,420 in total — an average of $179,190 each, of which $169,798 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Michael DelcoreElkhorn$25,678
- 2Anthony MartinNorth Platte$9,869
- 3Jesse MeaikeNorfolk$5,201
- 4Micheala McCarthyOmaha$3,910
- 5Alex LesiakOmaha$3,683
- 6Kayvon IzadiElkhorn$3,233
- 7Tristan HartzellNorfolk$1,303
- 8Daniel GaffneyOmaha$1,303
- 9Daniel CullanLincoln$1,098
- 10John McCarthyOmaha$1,053
- 11Michael CoffeyOmaha$906
- 12Jason MickelsOmaha$775
- 13Nicholas BruggemanOmaha$659
- 14David CloughOmaha$648
- 15Nicholas GoveLincoln$489
- 16Dolf IchtertzGrand Island$460
- 17Jeffrey TiedemanOmaha$458
- 18Richard MurphyOmaha$382
- 19Todd GaddieOmaha$238
- 20Michael ThompsonOmaha$151
- 21Paul NielsenKearney$0