Has Sean Forrest, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,258 in general payments to Sean Forrest, MD across 45 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 Forrest, 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 Sean Forrest, 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.

Sean Forrest, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Kingsport, TNNPI 1740643899

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,258in general payments, 2019–2025

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 30th percentile of 115 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$10,112

Medicare patients

Services billed

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

Stanley GallKingsport$8K
Robert FergusonKingsport$6K
Harvey GarrettMemphis$1.5M
William FristNashville$1.1M
V ReddyNashville$1M
Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
Ashish ShahNashville$822K
Brian LimaNashville$487K
Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$483K
Erin GillaspieNashville$247K

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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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