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Sean Whalen, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology · Nashville, TNNPI 1124201298

Payments from drug & device makers

$575,371in general payments, 2019–2025

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

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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.

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

$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

Part B allowed, 2024
$242,559
Medicare patients
915
Services billed
3,151

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban840$791,619
XareltoRivaroxaban263$257,543
Dofetilide286$38,777
Flecainide Acetate169$5,098
Metoprolol Succinate301$3,072
Mexiletine Hcl35$2,705
SotalolSotalol Hcl144$2,496
Droxidopa12$2,389
Amiodarone Hcl138$1,671
Nadolol18$1,357
Diltiazem 24hr Er (Cd)Diltiazem Hcl110$1,267
Propafenone Hcl23$1,094
Metoprolol Tartrate140$730
Carvedilol68$535
Propranolol Hcl ErPropranolol Hcl13$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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart 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.

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