Karen Vaughn
Family · Hickory, NCNPI 1982469904
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 27 payments — averaging $18.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$118
- Exact Sciences$74
- Bayer$72
- Boston Scientific$55
- Novo Nordisk$43
- Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$23
- plus $107 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$492100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 7 | $118 |
| Exact Sciences | 4 | $74 |
| Bayer | 4 | $72 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $55 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $43 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $22 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$492 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 4,522 family 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 18 | $481 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 28 | $252 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 21 | $178 |
| Omeprazole | 22 | $166 |
| Lisinopril | 30 | $138 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 45 | $130 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $101 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 12 | $86 |
| Losartan Potassium | 13 | $79 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $74 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 20 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Hickory
- Kelly HolmesHickory$55K
- Tanya DyerHickory$21K
- Leslie ByrneFayetteville$482K
- Michele CerraRaleigh$332K
- Anne LakeArchdale$306K
- Carrie PettitRaleigh$298K
- Nicole RothmanDurham$268K
- Meredith LeaYanceyville$253K
- Jennifer GibbsRaleigh$216K
- Juanita PerkinsDurham$213K
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.