Caroline Kruse
Nurse Practitioner · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1659453991
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 88 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 88 payments — averaging $18.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$236
- Novo Nordisk$232
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$183
- Merck$136
- AstraZeneca$135
- Lilly USA, LLC$92
- plus $577 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,590100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 13 | $236 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $232 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $183 |
| Merck | 7 | $136 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $135 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $92 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 6 | $88 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $80 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $76 |
| GSK | 5 | $69 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $59 |
| Novartis | 2 | $32 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $17 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $16 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $16 |
How this compares
$1,590 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 8,290 nurse practitioner providers in Florida.
Other nurse practitioner in Fort Myers
- Laura TaylorFort Myers$27K
- Jolanta BaginskiClearwater$494K
- Adissa PerezWinter Park$370K
- April WessonTampa$342K
- Margarita FernandezMiami$311K
- Stephanie SimmermanNaples$283K
- Claudette WalkerPonte Vedra Beach$271K
- Lisa NodzonTampa$246K
- Ashima BahlTampa$226K
- Maya BloombergMiami$202K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.