Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Ronald Zolty

Cardiovascular Disease Omaha, NE Medical Doctor

NPI 1023108701 CMS profile 819319

Emile @ 42Nd St, Omaha, NE 68198

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General payments

$945,074

1,136 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$1,890

Paid to them · 8 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$5,339,264 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2025, Ronald Zolty of Omaha, NE is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $945,074 across 1,136 general payments and $1,890 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $5,339,264 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Cardiovascular Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $166,640 186
2024 General $160,072 179
2023 General $139,323 190
2022 General $151,983 196
2021 General $72,213 108
2020 General $82,060 85
2019 General $172,782 192
2019 Research $1,890 8

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ronald Zolty
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ronald Zolty were reported at $166,640. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Ronald Zolty Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $172,782 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $82,060 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $72,213 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $151,983 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $139,323 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $160,072 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $166,640 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $409,301 464 payments
  2. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. $177,783 198 payments
  3. United Therapeutics Corporation $139,927 200 payments
  4. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $117,177 89 payments
  5. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $71,246 72 payments
  6. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $23,435 62 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $3,896 4 payments
  8. Abbott Laboratories $1,404 28 payments
  9. Sandoz Inc. $534 8 payments
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $140 3 payments
  11. Other $229 8 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $705,991 236 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $113,393 330 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $95,685 21 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $29,805 542 payments
  5. Education $200 7 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. UPTRAVI $308,230 349 payments
  2. OPSUMIT $282,017 317 payments
  3. Adempas $103,936 69 payments
  4. ONPATTRO $85,646 94 payments
  5. AMVUTTRA $84,476 94 payments
  6. WINREVAIR $51,397 61 payments
  7. TYVASO $33,640 51 payments
  8. ORENITRAM $31,013 47 payments
  9. ENTRESTO $22,920 42 payments
  10. REMODULIN $20,067 38 payments
  11. Other $56,174 139 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. United Therapeutics Corporation $1,890 8 payments

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 53 drugs

Part D claims

4,756

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 1,489

Drug cost

$17,287,374

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: $885,869

Branded share of claims

48.2%

Median for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: 32.1%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Adempas Riociguat Brand 424 $5,755,842
Uptravi Selexipag Brand 230 $5,455,775
Opsumit Macitentan Brand 117 $1,475,657
Tyvaso Dpi Treprostinil Brand 57 $1,442,760
Orenitram Er Treprostinil Diolamine Brand 60 $628,162
Winrevair Sotatercept-Csrk Brand 32 $566,378
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 451 $471,620
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 346 $375,986
Remodulin Treprostinil Sodium Brand 16 $281,422
Ambrisentan Generic 30 $236,177

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 53 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 800 Part D prescribers listed as Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 28 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$85,202

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

289

Average age 71

Services billed

1,111

140 women, 149 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Heart failure 75%
Chronic kidney disease 63%
Ischemic heart disease 60%
Arthritis 55%
Atrial fibrillation 52%
Diabetes 50%
COPD 34%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 10 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
UPTRAVI
$35,341 230 —
OPSUMIT
$27,941 117 —
Adempas
$24,607 424 —
AMVUTTRA
$21,179 — —
WINREVAIR
$15,783 32 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,144 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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