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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,114 in general payments to Benjamin Johnson, MD across 36 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 Benjamin 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 Benjamin 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.

Benjamin Johnson, MD

Otolaryngology · Oshkosh, WINPI 1508420647

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. accounts for 66.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,272 and has fallen 62.0% since, to $483 in 2025.

$2,114in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $58.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
Stryker$226
Aerin Medical Inc.$153
Medtronic$136
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$96
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$37
plus $61 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$94945%
Food & beverage$1,16455%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	27	$1,405
Stryker	2	$226
Aerin Medical Inc.	1	$153
Medtronic	1	$136
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$96
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$37
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$32
Advanced Bionics, LLC	1	$29

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

$2,114 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 168 otolaryngology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$12,895

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
MyrbetriqMirabegron	12	$5,087
Omeprazole	34	$509

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Colleen PleinKenosha$16K
Steven SperryGreenfield$13K
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Michael OldenburgGreen Bay$8K
Jamal AhmedMarshfield$8K
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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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