NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Nebraska Medicare prescriber rankings

8,489 Nebraska prescribers billed $1.6 billion in Medicare Part D drugs in 2024, the 38th largest of 56 states and territories. Opioids were 3.36 of every 100 of those claims (CMS), below the national 3.52.

CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers, 2024; CMS NPPES · method · Verify with CMS →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).
  • Prescribers8,489
  • Part D drug cost$1.6 billion
  • Average per prescriber$188,412
  • Wrote an opioid (CMS)5,444 (64.15%)
  • Opioid claims per 100 claims (CMS)3.36

Reading the Nebraska tables

Nebraska's 8,489 prescribers wrote 10,927,337 Part D claims in 2024, about $188,412 in drug cost per prescriber. A high total usually reflects specialty practice, such as cancer, rheumatology or HIV care, or vaccines: 3 of the 50 largest totals are mostly vaccines, which pharmacies often bill under a standing order naming one clinician. These are billing tables, not quality ratings. PlainDoctor does not rank named prescribers by opioid share; the state's opioid figures above come from CMS's own totals.

The 50 highest Part D drug-cost totals

Prescriber (NPPES taxonomy)Drug costClaims
1Eldridge BurnsFamily Medicine Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$35.5 million190,252
2Ronald ZoltyCardiovascular Disease Physician$17.4 million5,064
3Tammy WichmanCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician$13.4 million1,890
4Stefano TarantoloHematology & Oncology Physician$11.9 million3,792
5Luke NordquistHematology & Oncology Physician$11.4 million1,520
6Mojtaba AkhtariHematology & Oncology Physician$9.9 million2,270
7Sarah HolsteinHematology (Internal Medicine) Physician$8.4 million1,425
8Kailash MosalpuriaHematology & Oncology Physician$7.2 million1,496
9Jill FliegeNurse Practitioner$6.5 million628
10Nick HartlHematology & Oncology Physician$6.4 million2,251
11William GossmanEmergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$6.1 million31,691
12Cynthia LewisHematology & Oncology Physician$5.9 million2,048
13Lori Maness-HarrisHematology & Oncology Physician$5.4 million1,666
14Eric AveryHematology & Oncology Physician$4.9 million1,563
15Samer RennoHematology & Oncology Physician$4.7 million2,264
16Krishna GundaboluHematology & Oncology Physician$4.7 million1,359
17Joel MichalskiInternal Medicine Physician$4.7 million1,727
18Ryan RamaekersHematology & Oncology Physician$4.7 million2,497
19Ralph HaukeHematology & Oncology Physician$4.5 million1,732
20Scott McHamHematology & Oncology Physician$4.4 million1,089
21Rabih FahedHematology & Oncology Physician$4.3 million2,118
22Rebecca WesterFamily Medicine Physician$4.0 million50,519
23Stacey KnoxHematology & Oncology Physician$3.9 million1,244
24Benjamin TeplyMedical Oncology Physician$3.8 million711
25William JohnsonPulmonary Disease Physician$3.8 million2,104
26Jeffrey JarrettPulmonary Disease Physician$3.7 million2,083
27Robert BociekHematology & Oncology Physician$3.6 million585
28Abhijeet DanveRheumatology Physician$3.6 million2,206
29Robert LangdonHematology & Oncology Physician$3.6 million1,573
30Mehmet CopurHematology & Oncology Physician$3.5 million1,467
31Peter SilbersteinHematology & Oncology Physician$3.5 million1,208
32Madhu MidathadaHematology & Oncology Physician$3.5 million1,320
33Steven DunderHematology & Oncology Physician$3.4 million1,154
34Julie VoseHematology & Oncology Physician$3.4 million827
35Marium IlahiEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$3.3 million5,045
36Meilinh ThiPulmonary Disease Physician$3.2 million467
37Wallace PetersonHematology & Oncology Physician$3.2 million1,551
38Hannah PickMedical Physician Assistant$3.1 million1,455
39Xiuqing RuHematology & Oncology Physician$3.1 million1,038
40Ansar KhanUrology Physician$3.0 million1,649
41Daniel CramerNurse Practitioner$3.0 million1,651
42Apar Kishor GantiHematology & Oncology Physician$3.0 million535
43Keith MillerCardiovascular Disease Physician$2.9 million10,525
44Enas Al ZaghalEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$2.8 million4,310
45Jairam KrishnamurthyMedical Oncology Physician$2.8 million1,578
46Arif SattarInternal Medicine Physician$2.8 million34,581
47Margaret BlockHematology & Oncology Physician$2.8 million2,052
48David SharpInternal Medicine Physicianmostly vaccines, often billed by pharmacies under a standing order naming this clinician$2.7 million24,611
49Claire BakerEndocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician$2.7 million7,844
50Haris ZahoorMedical Oncology Physician$2.7 million883

Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider, 2024 (data.cms.gov), matched to CMS NPPES by NPI; vaccine share from the prescriber's top drugs in the CMS by-provider-and-drug file. Specialty is the taxonomy the clinician reported to NPPES.

Common questions

How many Medicare prescribers are in Nebraska?

Nebraska has 8,489 Medicare Part D prescribers who filed 10,927,337 claims totaling $1.6 billion in drug costs.

What is the opioid prescribing rate in Nebraska?

Opioids were 3.36 of every 100 Medicare Part D claims written by Nebraska prescribers in 2024, against 3.52 nationally (CMS). 5,444 of the state's 8,486 Part D prescribers in CMS's geography file (64.15%) wrote at least one opioid.

Checking a prescriber

Open the prescriber's record for the full NPI entry and prescribing detail, then confirm the license on the state board search. The Part D file covers Medicare Part D only; commercial, Medicaid, VA and cash prescriptions are not in it.

Prescriber rankings in other states

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. American Samoa
  4. Arizona
  5. Arkansas
  6. California
  7. Colorado
  8. Connecticut
  9. Delaware
  10. District of Columbia
  11. Florida
  12. Georgia
  13. Guam
  14. Hawaii
  15. Idaho
  16. Illinois
  17. Indiana
  18. Iowa
  19. Kansas
  20. Kentucky
  21. Louisiana
  22. Maine
  23. Maryland
  24. Massachusetts
  25. Michigan
  26. Minnesota
  27. Mississippi
  28. Missouri
  29. Montana
  30. Nebraska
  31. Nevada
  32. New Hampshire
  33. New Jersey
  34. New Mexico
  35. New York
  36. North Carolina
  37. North Dakota
  38. Northern Mariana Islands
  39. Ohio
  40. Oklahoma
  41. Oregon
  42. Pennsylvania
  43. Puerto Rico
  44. Rhode Island
  45. South Carolina
  46. South Dakota
  47. Tennessee
  48. Texas
  49. Utah
  50. Vermont
  51. Virgin Islands
  52. Virginia
  53. Washington
  54. West Virginia
  55. Wisconsin
  56. Wyoming

National prescriber rankings · All rankings

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Medicare Part D data year 2024 (CMS).