Kelly Nichols, APRN
Acute Care · Paducah, KYNPI 1447709159
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 100 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) at 30.7% of the total.
Across 100 payments — averaging $18.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$571
- Novartis$323
- Edwards Lifesciences$130
- Philips North America LLC$110
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$109
- Boehringer Ingelheim$105
- plus $511 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,859100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 37 | $571 |
| Novartis | 19 | $323 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $130 |
| Philips North America LLC | 7 | $110 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $109 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $105 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Amgen | 5 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $78 |
| Abbott | 1 | $49 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Merck | 3 | $43 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| GSK | 1 | $16 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $16 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 319 acute care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Potassium Chloride | 54 | $358 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 11 | $271 |
| Mupirocin | 46 | $219 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 30 | $198 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 31 | $90 |
| Lisinopril | 22 | $54 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $49 |
| Furosemide | 49 | $36 |
| Prednisone | 16 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Paducah
- Jennifer WatersPaducah$4K
- Regina WilkersonPaducah$2K
- Shannon AtkinsonBowling Green$63K
- Billie WaltersLexington$20K
- Audra MarcumLexington$14K
- Holly ChitwoodLexington$10K
- Vanessa PaddyElizabethtown$8K
- Baylee KnoxGlasgow$8K
- Katherine BeanOwensboro$7K
- Anna BayesAshland$7K
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.