Kara Fore-Flores
Registered Nurse · Boone, NCNPI 1790547115
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $395 of the $494 with a category attached, or 80.0%. It is spread thinly across 12 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among registered nurse clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 19 payments — averaging $26.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$118
- GSK$54
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$49
- Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$46
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$37
- Bristol Myers Squibb$37
- plus $154 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$39580%
- Education$9920%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 2 | $118 |
| GSK | 3 | $54 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $49 |
| Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $37 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $37 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Merck | 1 | $29 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| Array Biopharma Inc | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $23 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
How this compares
$494 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 93 registered nurse providers in North Carolina.
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.
Other registered nurse in Boone
- Callie IsaacsBoone$87
- Bryce MantonCharlotte$2K
- Ryan WerblowRaleigh$1K
- Tanya SmallwoodRaleigh$1K
- Melissa HendersonLumberton$873
- Denise RhewTrinity$554
- Monica ThomasHigh Point$509
- Rachel ArmisteadFayetteville$496
- Robert SottileWilmington$409
- Kisha WilsonRaleigh$385
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.