Carolyn Coons, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Omaha, NENPI 1073860375
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,320 of the $8,307 with a category attached, or 64.0%. Medtronic accounts for 65.0% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in NE with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 77 payments — averaging $107.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$5K
- Atricure, Inc.$2K
- Amgen$460
- Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.$268
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$196
- Abbott$187
- plus $263 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,32064%
- Food & beverage$2,98736%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 41 | $5,398 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 9 | $1,536 |
| Amgen | 4 | $460 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 9 | $268 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $196 |
| Abbott | 3 | $187 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Novartis | 2 | $42 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $34 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $32 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $31 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- LINQ II$1,770
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$1,258
- Repatha$426
- Micra$157
- Carto 3$109
- LifeVest$108
- CARDIOMEMS$106
How this compares
$8,307 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 924 nurse practitioner providers in Nebraska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $10,669 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 18 | $251 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 15 | $118 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Omaha
- Kristen HammesOmaha$899K
- Amy MuchowiczOmaha$78K
- Kari CunninghamOmaha$53K
- Laura DonovanOmaha$49K
- Kathleen HealeyOmaha$36K
- Katie RuchOmaha$26K
- Amanda GuggenmosOmaha$23K
- Amy YagerOmaha$15K
- Cara SchiesslerOmaha$14K
- Lindsay OneilOmaha$13K
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.