Kylee Lienemann
Registered Nurse · Kearney, NENPI 1689244824
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 33.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,043, more than ten times the $5 reported in 2021.
Across 80 payments — averaging $59.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Edwards Lifesciences$83
- Stryker$67
- Heartflow, Inc.$64
- plus $267 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,61855%
- Food & beverage$2,17545%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 22 | $1,595 |
| Medtronic | 22 | $1,411 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $1,306 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 2 | $83 |
| Stryker | 2 | $67 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $35 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Novartis | 2 | $28 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $25 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $21 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $18 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Lilly USA, 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.
- CARDIOMEMS$1,148
- WATCHMAN Access System$940
- SYMPLICITY G3$889
How this compares
Too few registered nurse providers in Nebraskato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 34 | $28,500 |
| EliquisApixaban | 21 | $18,653 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 12 | $7,718 |
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 13 | $5,356 |
| Bumetanide | 27 | $687 |
| Potassium Chloride | 44 | $592 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 72 | $501 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 54 | $383 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 23 | $373 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 19 | $217 |
| Torsemide | 20 | $203 |
| Furosemide | 56 | $163 |
| Metolazone | 19 | $138 |
| Losartan Potassium | 14 | $137 |
| Carvedilol | 16 | $81 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $21 | $18,65321 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $28 | $7,71812 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few registered nurse providers in Nebraskaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other registered nurse in Kearney
- Tamara RuoffLincoln$405
- Erica ParishOmaha$259
- Shannon ClarkLincoln$144
- Karli Lapointe-MillerOmaha$132
- Elizabeth SheeleyOmaha$117
- Kylie GeiserLincoln$88
- Brandi NeesenOmaha$66
- Kimberly HillOmaha$64
- Byron AndersonAlbion$49
- Chelsea RudloffLincoln$34
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.