James Livesay
Interventional Cardiology · Knoxville, TNNPI 1063945673
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 199 payments — averaging $51.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$6K
- Abiomed$1K
- Boston Scientific$857
- Medtronic$330
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$311
- Abbott$180
- plus $936 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5305%
- Travel & lodging$2,98929%
- Food & beverage$6,71565%
- Education$711%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 59 | $6,324 |
| Abiomed | 53 | $1,368 |
| Boston Scientific | 27 | $857 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $330 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 15 | $311 |
| Abbott | 3 | $180 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $175 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. | 4 | $86 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $70 |
| Amgen | 4 | $62 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $47 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $34 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $29 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $14 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- SAPIEN 3 Ultra RESILIA$697
- EVOQUE$674
- Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$530
- PASCAL$268
- Impella$262
- WATCHMAN FLX$253
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$172
- TRICLIP$136
- ONYX FRONTIER$115
How this compares
$10,305 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 207 interventional cardiology providers in Tennessee.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| BrilintaTicagrelor | 153 | $104,698 |
| Prasugrel Hcl | 36 | $2,868 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 31 | $333 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional cardiology in Knoxville
- Malcolm FosterKnoxville$1.9M
- Ayaz RahmanKnoxville$298K
- Joshua ToddKnoxville$219K
- Sara NegrottoKnoxville$114K
- Stuart BreseeKnoxville$112K
- Rachel GoodwinKnoxville$74K
- Briana CostelloKnoxville$53K
- Morgan RandallKnoxville$29K
- Michael MorseNashville$3.5M
- Charles TreasurePowell$3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.