Has Amber Edwards, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $82,763 in general payments to Amber Edwards, MD across 130 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Amber Edwards, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Amber Edwards, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Amber Edwards, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Nashville, TNNPI 1699031591

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $50,506 of the $82,763 with a category attached, or 61.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 69.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $73,973, more than ten times the $121 reported in 2019. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TN 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.

$82,763in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $636.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$58K
Atricure, Inc.$21K
Abiomed$1K
Abbott$1K
LSI Solutions Inc$347
Boston Scientific$292
plus $873 from 9 others

$45,002in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $22,501 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Atricure, Inc.$45K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$16,00019%
Travel & lodging$8,37910%
Food & beverage$7,87810%
Education$50,50661%

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
Intuitive Surgical	38	$57,786
Atricure, Inc.	54	$20,963
Abiomed	13	$1,368
Abbott	9	$1,135
LSI Solutions Inc	3	$347
Boston Scientific	2	$292
Zimmer Biomet	3	$180
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$154
Heartflow, Inc.	1	$124
Amgen	1	$121
Corcym Inc	1	$111
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc.	1	$85
Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical)	1	$60
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corporation	1	$19
Medtronic	1	$19

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$54,882
SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$14,315
EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$2,754
DAVINCI XI$2,500
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$1,799
Impella$1,040
ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION SYSTEM$1,023
THORATEC HEARTMATE 3 LVAS IMPLANT KIT$436
Epic$317
COR KNOT$263
PRESSUREWIRE$234
WATCHMAN Access System$173
FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$154
CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$154
STERNALOCK BLU SYSTEM$144
STERNALOCK$144
2ND GEN CENTRIMAG PRIMARY CONSOLE$125
FFRct$124
Repatha$121
Watchman$119

How this compares

$82,763 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$203,399

Medicare patients

110

Services billed

291

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
Mupirocin	72	$525
Metoprolol Tartrate	13	$61

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Nashville

Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
V ReddyNashville$760K
Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
Erin GillaspieNashville$95K
Caitlin DemarestNashville$33K
Henry ToddNashville$28K
Swaroop BommareddiNashville$26K
Ali IrshadNashville$20K
Brian LimaNashville$18K

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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.

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