Sean Whalen, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1124201298
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 619 payments — averaging $929.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$205K
- Biosense Webster, Inc.$189K
- Medtronic$77K
- Atricure, Inc.$51K
- Abbott$31K
- Biotronik Inc.$8K
- plus $13K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$46,36131%
- Speaking & faculty fees$54,01336%
- Travel & lodging$32,91922%
- Food & beverage$15,90811%
- Education$250%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 154 | $205,392 |
| Biosense Webster, Inc. | 83 | $188,943 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 123 | $77,498 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 49 | $50,904 |
| Abbott | 78 | $31,237 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 41 | $8,150 |
| Philips North America LLC | 11 | $6,206 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $5,175 |
| Baylis Medical Company Inc | 1 | $263 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $260 |
| Pfizer | 13 | $238 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $186 |
| Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $167 |
| Amgen | 6 | $93 |
| Elutia, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $70 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $56 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $53 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $45 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Bayer | 2 | $39 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Vital Connect, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $12 |
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.
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$22,706
- Farapulse$22,027
- Carto 3 System$18,823
- Carto Smarttouch$9,371
- Carto CFAE$9,371
- CartoSound$9,371
- TightRail$5,400
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYSTEM WITH VISITRAX$5,179
- Carto 3$4,777
- Edora$4,200
- Acticor$4,200
- Rivacor$4,200
- Sentus$4,200
- Plexa$4,200
- ENSITE PRECISION$2,846
- AMPLATZER AMULET$1,577
- ENSITE$1,575
- EPI-SENSE GUIDED COAGULATION SYS$1,378
- AVEIR$1,178
- AFFERA MAPPING SYSTEM$891
How this compares
$575,371 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 840 | $791,619 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 263 | $257,543 |
| Dofetilide | 286 | $38,777 |
| Flecainide Acetate | 169 | $5,098 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 301 | $3,072 |
| Mexiletine Hcl | 35 | $2,705 |
| SotalolSotalol Hcl | 144 | $2,496 |
| Droxidopa | 12 | $2,389 |
| Amiodarone Hcl | 138 | $1,671 |
| Nadolol | 18 | $1,357 |
| Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl | 110 | $1,267 |
| Propafenone Hcl | 23 | $1,094 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 140 | $730 |
| Carvedilol | 68 | $535 |
| Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl | 13 | $530 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $238 | $791,619840 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $260 | $257,543263 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 82 clinical cardiac electrophysiology providers in Tennessee.
Other clinical cardiac electrophysiology in Nashville
- James BakerNashville$1.2M
- Robert PickettNashville$979K
- Harikrishna TandriNashville$745K
- William StevensonNashville$724K
- Stephen FahrigNashville$615K
- Gregory BashianNashville$536K
- Przemyslaw BorekNashville$267K
- Moore ShoemakerNashville$193K
- Sandeep DuggalNashville$162K
- Daniel KaiserNashville$139K
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.