Sean Jordan, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Knoxville, TNNPI 1679835268
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.0%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 39 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 54.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,921 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $1,864 in 2025.
Across 148 payments — averaging $55.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Atricure, Inc.$652
- Boston Scientific$521
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$229
- Medtronic$201
- AstraZeneca$177
- plus $2K from 33 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $32,208 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.
- AstraZeneca$32K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$551%
- Travel & lodging$1,08313%
- Food & beverage$3,99649%
- Education$3,02037%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 13 | $4,415 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 34 | $652 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $521 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 14 | $229 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 5 | $201 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $177 |
| Smoky Mountain Surgical LLC | 5 | $176 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 9 | $174 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 2 | $123 |
| Abbott | 5 | $116 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 5 | $109 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $108 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $102 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $99 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 3 | $95 |
| Livanova USA, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Merck | 3 | $75 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 3 | $66 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 2 | $63 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $62 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 2 | $53 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $49 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Tempus AI, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $19 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| BD | 1 | $16 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ION$3,000
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,063
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$421
- Monarch Platform$109
How this compares
$8,154 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th 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 Knoxville
- Christian ProbstKnoxville$25K
- Raymond DieterKnoxville$8K
- Christina GlennKnoxville$7K
- David GrahamKnoxville$6K
- Kimberly LindenKnoxville$6K
- William McAlexanderKnoxville$5K
- Carlo Martinez TorresKnoxville$5K
- William WalkerKnoxville$4K
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
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.