Vanessa Gibson, MD
Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Memphis, TNNPI 1407053036
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 60 payments — averaging $63.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$2K
- Medtronic$434
- Covidien LP$363
- Johnson & Johnson$319
- Atricure, Inc.$171
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$150
- plus $631 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,38236%
- Food & beverage$2,42864%
- Gifts$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 10 | $1,751 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $434 |
| Covidien LP | 5 | $363 |
| Johnson & Johnson(4 entities) | 8 | $319 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 2 | $171 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $150 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $120 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $115 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Merck | 2 | $37 |
| Polaris Technology Solutions LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Activ Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| BD | 1 | $19 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alfasigma 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.
How this compares
$3,819 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th 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 Memphis
- Harvey GarrettMemphis$1.5M
- Danielle SenMemphis$52K
- Rachel HarrisonMemphis$36K
- Bradley WolfMemphis$32K
- Edward RobbinsMemphis$31K
- Ganpat ValaulikarMemphis$13K
- Thomas NgMemphis$10K
- Christopher MutrieMemphis$10K
- Glenn SchoettleMemphis$6K
- William FristNashville$1.1M
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.