Benjamin Johnson, MD
Trauma Surgery · Boston, MANPI 1740574193
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $15,125 of the $19,504 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Covidien LP accounts for 64.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $12,650 and has fallen 94.1% since, to $750 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $527.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Covidien LP$12K
- Sealonix Inc.$3K
- Davol Inc.$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$911
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$671
- TEI Biosciences Inc$284
- plus $390 from 7 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $1000.00 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.
- New View Surgical, Inc.$1K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$15,12578%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,00010%
- Travel & lodging$1,4367%
- Food & beverage$9235%
- Education$200%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Covidien LP | 6 | $12,499 |
| Sealonix Inc. | 3 | $2,750 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $911 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $671 |
| TEI Biosciences Inc | 8 | $284 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $240 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $34 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $20 |
| Stryker | 1 | $13 |
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.
- CraniSeal Dural Sealant$750
- MATRIXRIB$744
- BILAYER WOUND MATRIX (BWM)$664
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$500
- IDRT$500
- FLOWABLE$500
- PRIMATRIX$385
- SURGIMEND$305
- VAC VERAFLO$240
- AMNIOEXCEL$115
How this compares
Too few trauma surgery providers in Massachusettsto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 trauma surgery in Boston
- Charles ParsonsBoston$18K
- Geoffrey AndersonBoston$13K
- Martin RosenthalBoston$12K
- Reza AskariBoston$4K
- Michael DewaneBoston$2K
- John HwabejireBoston$1K
- Joanna EtraBoston$859
- George VelmahosBoston$456
- Michael SzymanskiBoston$129
- Sean HerseyFairhaven$13K
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.