Dr. Nicholas Kristian Gove, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Bryan Medical Center Hospital · Lincoln, NE
• Chi Health St. Elizabeth Hospital · Lincoln, NE · listed as CHI Health St Elizabeth
• Lincoln Surgical Hospital Hospital · Lincoln, NE · listed as Lincoln Surgery Center LLC
• Memorial Health Care Systems Hospital · Seward, NE

Colleagues at Nebraska Orthopaedic Center PC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 64 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Mr. Ryan J Baumert, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant · Lincoln, NE
• Erin Marie Burr Surgical Physician Assistant · Lincoln, NE
• Brooke A. Chambers, PA-C Physician Assistant · Lincoln, NE
• Jordan P Hiatt, PA-C Athletic Trainer · Lincoln, NE
• Dr. Douglas A Koch, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Lincoln, NE
• Michael L Koebernick, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · Lincoln, NE
• Madeline Noecker, APRN-NP, AGPCNP Nurse Practitioner · Lincoln, NE
• Dr. Daniel Ray Ripa, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician · Lincoln, NE
• Abigail Ubben, PA Physician Assistant · Lincoln, NE
• Steven T. Wahlmeier, MD Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician · Lincoln, NE
• Benjamin Micheal Woodhead, DO Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Lincoln, NE
• David Alexander Zink Physician Assistant · Lincoln, NE

Other providers in Lincoln

• David L. Samani, MD, Inc

  Organization Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1962687756

  2222 S 16th St Ste 240, Lincoln, NE 68502-3764 · (402) 323-7260

• Stephen Drew Forro, DO

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1790246056

  2222 S 16th St Tower B Ste 405, Lincoln, NE 68502-3793 · (402) 481-5860

• Frederick D. Hathaway, MD, PC

  Organization Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1295948586

  1919 S 40th St Ste 300, Lincoln, NE 68506-5243 · (402) 486-7073

• Matthew Harper Freeman, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1457841447

  575 S 70th St Ste 200, Lincoln, NE 68510-2471 · (402) 436-2000

• Dr. Thomas G Harbert, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1629058060

  8560 Foxtail Dr Ste 201, Lincoln, NE 68526-6140 · (402) 219-3873

• Lukas Emilie Hashem, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1063110708

  2222 S 16th St Tower B Ste 405, Lincoln, NE 68502-3793 · (402) 481-4860

• Dr. David Patrick Heiser, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1083663751

  575 S 70th Ste 200 Nebraska Orthopaedic And Sports Medicine PD, Lincoln, NE 68510-2471 · (402) 488-3322

• Dr. Thomas Mark Heiser, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1336198001

  Nebraska Orthopaedic And Sports Medicine P.c 575 S 70th Ste 200, Lincoln, NE 68510-2471 · (402) 488-3322