Has Sean Collins received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $123,624 in general payments to Sean Collins across 87 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 Sean Collins 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 Sean Collins 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.

Sean Collins

Emergency Medicine · Nashville, TNNPI 1780775643

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $110,565 of the $123,624 with a category attached, or 89.4%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.3%. Among emergency medicine clinicians in TN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$123,624in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $1420.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Prenosis Inc.$26K
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$23K
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$21K
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$18K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$7K
Boehringer Ingelheim$7K
plus $21K from 5 others

$541,125in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $27,056 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.

Beckman Coulter, Inc.$492K
Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$49K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$110,56589%
Travel & lodging$12,14610%
Food & beverage$9141%

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
Prenosis Inc.	16	$26,382
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	16	$22,800
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH	7	$20,956
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg	9	$18,235
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	8	$7,069
Boehringer Ingelheim	12	$6,887
Roche Diagnostics Corporation	8	$6,324
Eli Lilly	3	$4,491
Pfizer	2	$4,293
Novartis	1	$3,366
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	5	$2,823

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.

How this compares

$123,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 976 emergency medicine providers in Tennessee.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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