Has Aaron Johnson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,198 in general payments to Aaron Johnson, MD across 31 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Aaron Johnson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Aaron Johnson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Aaron Johnson, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Baltimore, MDNPI 1538420641

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,198in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $554.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$13K
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.$2K
Synthes GmbH$1K
Stryker$525
Smith+Nephew$336
Johnson & Johnson$181
plus $244 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$13,61379%
Speaking & faculty fees$1,0006%
Travel & lodging$1,0516%
Food & beverage$1,5349%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	7	$13,362
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	2	$1,550
Synthes GmbH	2	$1,000
Stryker	6	$525
Smith+Nephew	5	$336
Johnson & Johnson	2	$181
Zimmer Biomet	3	$117
Medacta USA, Inc.	1	$64
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$32
Biogen	1	$16
Neurocrine Biosciences, 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

$17,198 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 378 orthopaedic surgery providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$293,858

Medicare patients

387

Services billed

1,920

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
Meloxicam	48	$315
Mupirocin	11	$55
Amoxicillin	29	$31

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Baltimore

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Anand MurthiBaltimore$5.4M
Khaled KebaishBaltimore$3.5M
Paul SponsellerBaltimore$1.5M
Shawn StandardBaltimore$1.4M
Ronald DelanoisBaltimore$1.2M
John HerzenbergBaltimore$818K
Leslie MatthewsBaltimore$710K
Rebecca CerratoBaltimore$575K
Henry BoucherBaltimore$381K

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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.

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