Candace McKnight Johnson
Family · Bradenton, FLNPI 1578553962
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,561 of the $5,769 with a category attached, or 79.1%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. at 24.8% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $2,132, 5.0 times the $425 reported in 2021. Among family clinicians in FL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 194 payments — averaging $29.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$1K
- Harmony Biosciences LLC$1K
- Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc$697
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$288
- Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC$282
- plus $794 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1503%
- Travel & lodging$95817%
- Food & beverage$4,56179%
- Education$1002%
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. | 11 | $1,430 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 53 | $1,247 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 43 | $1,029 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 25 | $697 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $288 |
| Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 5 | $282 |
| Novo Nordisk | 12 | $216 |
| Merck | 9 | $151 |
| Resmed Corp | 3 | $53 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $43 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $42 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $20 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 1 | $18 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,769 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 14,618 family providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modafinil | 35 | $1,058 |
| Temazepam | 39 | $769 |
| Gabapentin | 76 | $751 |
| Armodafinil | 19 | $629 |
| Doxepin Hcl | 51 | $596 |
| Eszopiclone | 12 | $302 |
| Ropinirole Hcl | 24 | $256 |
| Clonazepam | 73 | $251 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 44 | $247 |
| Pramipexole DihydrochloridePramipexole Di-Hcl | 28 | $239 |
| Zolpidem Tartrate | 39 | $152 |
| Lorazepam | 23 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Bradenton
- Lewis HarringtonTampa$954K
- Danielle PharesFt Lauderdale$713K
- Donna OrtizOrlando$417K
- Patrick SzarazMiami$327K
- Deena RodneyMaitland$323K
- Yamila MelendezMiami$212K
- Holly BoydLand O Lakes$200K
- Rachael BuschLoxahatchee$189K
- Victor Tatis de la NuezMiramar$161K
- Ronda CrewsJax Bch$155K
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.