Eric Sievers, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Jackson, TNNPI 1629222427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,213 of the $6,954 with a category attached, or 75.0%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abiomed at 44.5% of the total.
Across 119 payments — averaging $58.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abiomed$3K
- Medtronic$694
- Atricure, Inc.$685
- Edwards Lifesciences$640
- Endologix LLC$625
- Artivion, Inc.$191
- plus $1K from 19 others
Across 10 payments — averaging $16,304 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.$163K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,74125%
- Food & beverage$5,21375%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abiomed | 46 | $3,093 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $694 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 17 | $685 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 9 | $640 |
| Endologix LLC | 2 | $625 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 12 | $191 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $188 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 2 | $163 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $129 |
| Gentleman Orthopedic Solutions | 2 | $120 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $68 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $60 |
| BD | 2 | $41 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Nuwellis, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $14 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $13 |
| Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Impella$1,623
- Ovation$625
- HemoSphere$299
- CoreValve Evolut$293
- Conformable TAG Thoracic Endoprosthesis$188
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$183
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$167
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$137
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$137
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$137
- ENROUTE .014 Guidewire$137
- ATRICURE SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$130
- ATRICURE ATRICLIP LAA EXCLUSION$130
- Da Vinci Surgical System$129
- SYNERGY ABLATION SYSTEM$125
- 3F$117
How this compares
$6,954 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 26 | $208 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Jackson
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$712K
- Mark BonnellChattanooga$141K
- Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
- Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
- Erin GillaspieNashville$95K
- Amber EdwardsNashville$83K
- Danielle SenMemphis$52K
- James HeadrickChattanooga$46K
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.