Benjamin Johnson, MD
Pain Medicine · Knoxville, TNNPI 1982674164
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 119 payments — averaging $15.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$629
- Boston Scientific$438
- SPR Therapeutics, Inc$113
- Averitas Pharma Inc.$94
- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.$92
- AbbVie$78
- plus $342 from 10 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $525.00 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.$525
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,787100%
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.
How this compares
$1,787 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 112 pain medicine providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $64 |
| Meloxicam | 15 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pain medicine in Knoxville
- Joseph DichiaraKnoxville$102K
- Stephanie VanterpoolKnoxville$72K
- Jason BuehlerKnoxville$20K
- Kyle SnyderKnoxville$8K
- James ChooKnoxville$5K
- George MearsKnoxville$4K
- Matthew VanceKnoxville$3K
- Herbert MeltzerNashville$974K
- Damita BryantNashville$506K
- Shravani DurbhakulaNashville$468K
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.