Sean Forrest, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Kingsport, TNNPI 1740643899
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (51.9%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 67.4% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in TN, where the typical reported total is $4,482.
Across 45 payments — averaging $50.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Atricure, Inc.$206
- Pulmonx Corporation$177
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$136
- Abbott$57
- Boston Scientific$39
- plus $121 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,17352%
- Food & beverage$94942%
- Education$1376%
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 | 19 | $1,523 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 13 | $206 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $177 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| Abbott | 2 | $57 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $29 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $22 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $17 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th 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.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Kingsport
- Robert FergusonKingsport$6K
- Stanley GallKingsport$4K
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$712K
- Mark BonnellChattanooga$141K
- Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
- Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
- Erin GillaspieNashville$95K
- Amber EdwardsNashville$83K
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.