Stanley Gall, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Kingsport, TNNPI 1982633467
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 58.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,298, more than ten times the $32 reported in 2019. 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 100 payments — averaging $44.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$845
- Atricure, Inc.$472
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$270
- Artivion, Inc.$80
- Medtronic$51
- plus $128 from 5 others
Across 4 payments — averaging $987.50 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.
- Atricure, Inc.$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,10547%
- Food & beverage$2,37753%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 25 | $2,637 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 13 | $845 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 30 | $472 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 20 | $270 |
| Artivion, Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $51 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $39 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Masimo Corporation | 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.
How this compares
$4,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 62 | $461 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Kingsport
- Robert FergusonKingsport$6K
- Grayson WheatleyNashville$900K
- V ReddyNashville$760K
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$712K
- Mark BonnellChattanooga$141K
- Clayton KaiserNashville$124K
- Sreekumar SubramanianNashville$98K
- Erin GillaspieNashville$95K
- Amber EdwardsNashville$83K
- Danielle SenMemphis$52K
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.