Alexander Sullivan, MD
Interventional Cardiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1093247850
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.7%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 32.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,233 and has fallen 56.8% since, to $2,263 in 2025.
Across 115 payments — averaging $125.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$5K
- Medtronic$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Inari Medical, Inc.$768
- Teleflex LLC$427
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,75926%
- Food & beverage$7,92055%
- Education$2,79919%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 34 | $4,711 |
| Medtronic | 29 | $3,133 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $2,000 |
| Boston Scientific | 20 | $1,414 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 7 | $768 |
| Teleflex LLC | 4 | $427 |
| Thrombolex, Inc. | 1 | $405 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $278 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $249 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $224 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $198 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $193 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $138 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $136 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| ZOLL Circulation Inc | 1 | $28 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $27 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Stryker | 1 | $25 |
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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,000
- ONYX FRONTIER$1,827
- OPTIS$1,505
- SUPERA$1,366
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$635
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$635
- Bashir Endovascular Catheter$405
- AVVIGO Guidance System$294
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$278
- Indigo System$249
- KENGREAL$224
- RESOLUTE ONYX$214
- Diamondback Coronary$206
- Impella$174
- AlphaVac$173
- ENSITE PRECISION$154
- GUIDELINER$144
- XARELTO$136
- TURNPIKE$135
- OPTICROSS$134
How this compares
$14,477 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.
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 interventional cardiology in Nashville
- Jimmy KerriganNashville$644K
- Kashish GoelNashville$558K
- Brian JeffersonNashville$547K
- Michael MorseNashville$353K
- Nadia SuttonNashville$344K
- Samuel HorrNashville$246K
- Colin BarkerNashville$217K
- Leah RajNashville$88K
- Andrew GoodmanNashville$57K
- Jay PatelNashville$48K
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.