Caroline Kern
Family · Lexington, KYNPI 1205861481
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 64 payments — averaging $27.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$382
- Atricure, Inc.$282
- Medtronic$140
- Irhythm Technologies, Inc.$114
- Merck$102
- Abbott$78
- plus $639 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,737100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 6 | $382 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $282 |
| Medtronic | 7 | $140 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| Merck | 5 | $102 |
| Abbott | 4 | $78 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $74 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $60 |
| Novartis | 3 | $53 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $44 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $35 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$1,737 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,374 family providers in Kentucky.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 79 | $736 |
| Cilostazol | 16 | $189 |
| Methylprednisolone | 14 | $82 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $79 |
| Potassium Chloride | 12 | $43 |
| Furosemide | 15 | $19 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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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.